One-loop infrared rescattering by enhanced scalar fluctuations during inflation
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| author | Fumagalli, Jacopo Bhattacharya, Sukannya Peloso, Marco Renaux-Petel, Sébastien Witkowski, Lukas T. |
| author_facet | Fumagalli, Jacopo Bhattacharya, Sukannya Peloso, Marco Renaux-Petel, Sébastien Witkowski, Lukas T. |
| contents | 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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| spellingShingle | One-loop infrared rescattering by enhanced scalar fluctuations during inflation Fumagalli, Jacopo Bhattacharya, Sukannya Peloso, Marco Renaux-Petel, Sébastien Witkowski, Lukas T. Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory 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. |
| title | One-loop infrared rescattering by enhanced scalar fluctuations during inflation |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08358 |