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Radiative corrections to the inflaton potential as an explanation of suppressed large scale power in density perturbations and the cosmic microwave background

A Buchel1,2, F A Chishtie2, V Elias2, Katherine Freese3, R B Mann1,4, D G C McKeon2 and T G Steele5

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The Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe microwave background data suggest that the primordial spectrum of scalar curvature fluctuations is suppressed at small wavenumbers. We propose a UV/IR mixing effect in small field inflationary models that can explain the observable deviation in WMAP data from the concordance model. Specifically, in inflationary models where the inflaton couples to an asymptotically free gauge theory, the radiative corrections to the effective inflaton potential can be anomalously large. This occurs for small values of the inflaton field which are of the order of the gauge theory strong coupling scale. Radiative corrections cause the inflaton potential to blow up at small values of the inflaton field. As a result, these corrections can violate the slow roll condition at the initial stage of the inflation and suppress the production of scalar density perturbations.


Keywords

CMBR theory

cosmological perturbation theory

inflation

 

E-print Number: hep-ph/0410117

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PACS

98.70.Vc Background radiations

11.15.-q Gauge field theories

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 03 (March 2005)

Received 14 November 2004, accepted for publication 3 March 2005

Published 11 March 2005



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