Wednesday, January 16, 2013

1301.3319 (David Langlois et al.)

Density Perturbations from Modulated Decay of the Curvaton    [PDF]

David Langlois, Tomo Takahashi
We study density perturbations, including their non-Gaussianity, in models in which the decay rate of the curvaton depends on another light scalar field, denoted the modulaton. Although this model shares some similarities with the standard curvaton and modulated reheating scenarios, it exhibits interesting predictions for f_NL and g_NL that are specific to this model. We also discuss the possibility that both modulaton and curvaton fluctuations contribute to the final curvature perturbation. Our results naturally include the standard curvaton and modulated reheating scenarios as specific limits and are thus useful to present a unified treatment of these models and their variants.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3319

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