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Article Dans Une Revue JCAP Année : 2024

One-loop infrared rescattering by enhanced scalar fluctuations during inflation

Jacopo Fumagalli
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Sukannya Bhattacharya
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Marco Peloso
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Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Résumé

We show that, whenever the perturbations of some field are excited during inflation by a physical process on sub-horizon scales, they unavoidably generate, even through gravitational interactions alone, a significant resonant IR cascade of power down to scales that are of the order of the horizon at that time (we denote these scales as near IR). We provide general analytic one-loop results for the enhancement of the IR power of the curvature perturbation generated by this effect, highlighting the role played by the resonance. We then study a number of examples in which the excited state is: (i) an isocurvature field, (ii) the curvature perturbation itself, (iii) a mixture of curvature and isocurvature fluctuations driven to an excited state by their coupled dynamics. In the cases shown, the cascade significantly modifies the near IR part of the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation with respect to the linear theory, indicating that this effect can impact the phenomenology associated with a variety of mechanisms considered in the literature, notably concerning primordial black holes and gravitational waves.

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hal-04174888 , version 1 (01-08-2023)

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Jacopo Fumagalli, Sukannya Bhattacharya, Marco Peloso, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, Lukas T Witkowski. One-loop infrared rescattering by enhanced scalar fluctuations during inflation. JCAP, 2024, 04, pp.029. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2024/04/029⟩. ⟨hal-04174888⟩
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