Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-08-22
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 063502
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
10 pages, harvmac, references added, expanded discussion
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.063502
There exist a one complex parameter family of de Sitter invariant vacua, known as alpha vacua. In the context of slow roll inflation, we show that all but the Bunch-Davies vacuum generates unacceptable production of high energy particles at the end of inflation. As a simple model for the effects of trans-planckian physics, we go on to consider non-de Sitter invariant vacua obtained by patching modes in the Bunch-Davies vacuum above some momentum scale M_c, with modes in an alpha vacuum below M_c. Choosing M_c near the Planck scale M_pl, we find acceptable levels of hard particle production, and corrections to the cosmic microwave perturbations at the level of H M_pl/M_c^2, where H is the Hubble parameter during inflation. More general initial states of this type with H<< M_c << M_pl can give corrections to the spectrum of cosmic microwave background perturbations at order 1. The parameter characterizing the alpha-vacuum during inflation is a new cosmological observable.
Goldstein Kevin
Lowe David A.
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