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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/028
Keywords
inflation; physics of the early universe
Funding
- RFBR [08-02-00923]
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- European Research and Training Network [MRTPNCT-2006 10 035863-1]
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A sudden small change in the second derivative of the inflaton potential can result in a universal local feature in the spectrum of primordial perturbations generated during inflation. The exact solution describing this feature [1] is characterized by a step in the spectral index modulated by characteristic oscillations and results in a large running of the spectral index localized over a few e-folds of scale. In this paper we confront this step-like feature with the 5 year WMAP results and demonstrate that it provides a better fit to this data than a featureless initial spectrum. If such a feature exists at all, then it should lie at sufficiently large scales k(0) less than or similar to 0.003Mpc(-1) corresponding to l less than or similar to 40. The sign of the effect is shown to correspond to the negative running of n(s) localized near this scale. This feature could arise as a result of a 'mini-waterfall'-type fast second order phase transition experienced by an auxiliary heavy field during inflation, in a model similar to hybrid inflation (though for a different choice of parameters). If this is the case, then the auxiliary field should be positively coupled to the inflaton.
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