Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the no-boundary initial condition

Chen, Pisin; Lin, Yu-Hsiang; Yeom, Dong-han

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6426-4

Title: Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the no-boundary initial condition

Abstract

The lack of correlations at the long-wavelength scales of the cosmic microwave background spectrum is a long-standing puzzle and it persists in the latest Planck data. By considering the Hartle–Hawking no-boundary wave function as the initial condition of the inflationary universe, we propose that the power suppression can be the consequence of a massive inflaton, whose initial vacuum is the Euclidean instanton in a compact manifold. We calculate the primordial power spectrum of the perturbations, and find that as long as the scalar field is moderately massive, the power spectrum is suppressed at the long-wavelength scales.

Authors:

Chen, Pisin ^[1]; Lin, Yu-Hsiang ^[2];

^[3]

National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan)
National Taiwan Univ., Taipei (Taiwan); The Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang (South Korea); POSTECH, Pohang (South Korea)

Publication Date:: Wed Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2018

Research Org.:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1490620

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 78; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044

Publisher:: Springer

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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                    Chen, Pisin, Lin, Yu-Hsiang, and Yeom, Dong-han. Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the no-boundary initial condition.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Chen, Pisin, Lin, Yu-Hsiang, & Yeom, Dong-han. Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the no-boundary initial condition.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6426-4

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"Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the no-boundary initial condition".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6426-4.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1490620.

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@article{osti_1490620,

  title        = {Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the no-boundary initial condition},

  author       = {Chen, Pisin and Lin, Yu-Hsiang and Yeom, Dong-han},

  abstractNote = {The lack of correlations at the long-wavelength scales of the cosmic microwave background spectrum is a long-standing puzzle and it persists in the latest Planck data. By considering the Hartle–Hawking no-boundary wave function as the initial condition of the inflationary universe, we propose that the power suppression can be the consequence of a massive inflaton, whose initial vacuum is the Euclidean instanton in a compact manifold. We calculate the primordial power spectrum of the perturbations, and find that as long as the scalar field is moderately massive, the power spectrum is suppressed at the long-wavelength scales.},

  doi          = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6426-4},

  journal      = {European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields},

  number       = 11,

  volume       = 78,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2018},

  month        = {Wed Nov 14 00:00:00 EST 2018}

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