Effects of the imaginary inflaton component in supergravity new inflation
- Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, CH-4056 Basel (Switzerland)
When models of new inflation are implemented in supergravity, the inflaton is a complex and not a real scalar field. As a complex scalar field has two independent components, supergravity models of new inflation are naturally two-field models. In this paper, we use the δN formalism to analyse how the two-field behaviour modifies the usual single-field predictions. We find that the model reduces to the single-field limit if the inflaton mass term is sufficiently small. Otherwise, the imaginary inflaton component reduces the amplitude A{sub s} and the spectral index n{sub s} of the scalar curvature perturbations. However, the perturbations remain nearly Gaussian, and the reduced bispectrum f{sub NL} is too small to be observed.
- OSTI ID:
- 22369926
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 11; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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