TY - JOUR
T1 - Curvaton as dark matter with secondary inflation
AU - Gong, Jinn Ouk
AU - Kitajima, Naoya
AU - Terada, Takahiro
N1 - Funding Information:
TT is partially supported by the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Scientific Research No. 26-10619, and by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Research Grant NRF-2015R1A2A1A05001869. A part of TT's work was done when he belonged to APCTP.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/3/27
Y1 - 2017/3/27
N2 - We consider a novel cosmological scenario in which a curvaton is long-lived and plays the role of cold dark matter (CDM) in the presence of a short, secondary inflation. Non-trivial evolution of the large scale cosmological perturbation in the curvaton scenario can affect the duration of the short term inflation, resulting in the inhomogeneous end of inflation. Non-linear parameters of the curvature perturbation are predicted to be fNL,5/4 and gNL 0. The curvaton abundance can be well diluted by the short-term inflation and accordingly, it does not have to decay into the Standard Model particles. Then the curvaton can account for the present CDM with the isocurvature perturbation being sufficiently suppressed because both the adiabatic and CDM isocurvature perturbations have the same origin. As an explicit example, we consider the thermal inflation scenario and a string axion as a candidate for this curvaton-dark matter. We further discuss possibilities to identify the curvaton-dark matter with the QCD axion.
AB - We consider a novel cosmological scenario in which a curvaton is long-lived and plays the role of cold dark matter (CDM) in the presence of a short, secondary inflation. Non-trivial evolution of the large scale cosmological perturbation in the curvaton scenario can affect the duration of the short term inflation, resulting in the inhomogeneous end of inflation. Non-linear parameters of the curvature perturbation are predicted to be fNL,5/4 and gNL 0. The curvaton abundance can be well diluted by the short-term inflation and accordingly, it does not have to decay into the Standard Model particles. Then the curvaton can account for the present CDM with the isocurvature perturbation being sufficiently suppressed because both the adiabatic and CDM isocurvature perturbations have the same origin. As an explicit example, we consider the thermal inflation scenario and a string axion as a candidate for this curvaton-dark matter. We further discuss possibilities to identify the curvaton-dark matter with the QCD axion.
KW - cosmological perturbation theory
KW - physics of the early universe
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U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/053
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/053
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017162552
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 053
ER -