TY - JOUR
T1 - Large slow roll parameters in single field inflation
AU - Cook, Jessica L.
AU - Krauss, Lawrence M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/3/15
Y1 - 2016/3/15
N2 - We initially consider two simple situations where inflationary slow roll parameters are large and modes no longer freeze out shortly after exiting the horizon, treating both cases analytically. By modes, we refer to the comoving curvature perturbation R. We then consider applications to transient phases where the slow roll parameters can become large, especially in the context of the common 'fast-roll' inflation frequently used as a mechanism to explain the anomalously low scalar power at low l in the CMB. These transient cases we treat numerically. We find when , the first slow roll parameter, and only is large, modes decay outside the horizon, and when δ, the second slow roll parameter, is large, modes grow outside the horizon. When multiple slow roll parameters are large the behavior in general is more complicated, but we nevertheless show in the 'fast-roll' inflation case, modes grow outside the horizon.
AB - We initially consider two simple situations where inflationary slow roll parameters are large and modes no longer freeze out shortly after exiting the horizon, treating both cases analytically. By modes, we refer to the comoving curvature perturbation R. We then consider applications to transient phases where the slow roll parameters can become large, especially in the context of the common 'fast-roll' inflation frequently used as a mechanism to explain the anomalously low scalar power at low l in the CMB. These transient cases we treat numerically. We find when , the first slow roll parameter, and only is large, modes decay outside the horizon, and when δ, the second slow roll parameter, is large, modes grow outside the horizon. When multiple slow roll parameters are large the behavior in general is more complicated, but we nevertheless show in the 'fast-roll' inflation case, modes grow outside the horizon.
KW - ination
KW - physics of the early universe
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84961753588&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/028
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/03/028
M3 - Article
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2016
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 028
ER -