Constraints on the birth of the universe and origin of cosmic dark flow

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15450220MaRDI QIDQ2805097zbMATHFDO

Authors G. J. Mathews, M. R. Gangopadhyay, P. Garnavich, B. Rose, K. Ichiki, T. Kajino, Dai Yamazaki

Publication date 10 May 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01214

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic microwave backgroundcosmological inflationdark flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: We summarize three recent efforts to constrain the first few moments of cosmic creation before and during the epoch of inflation. We consider two means to explain a slight dip in the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background for multipoles in the range of $ell=10-30$ from both the {it Planck} and {it WMAP} data. We show that such a dip could be the result of resonant creation of a massive particle that couples to the inflaton field. For best-fit models, the epoch of resonant particle creation reenters the horizon at wave numbers of $k_{\ast }sim0.00011pm0.0004$ ($h$ Mpc${}^{-1}$). The amplitude and location of these features correspond to the creation of a number of degenerate fermion species of mass $sim15/lambd{a}^{3/2}$ $m_{pl}$ during inflation where $lambda$ is the coupling constant between the inflaton field and the created fermion species. Alternatively, one can explain the existence of such a dip as due to a jump in the inflation generating potential. We show that such a jump can also resolve the excessively large dark flow predicted from the M-theory landscape. Finally, we summarize our efforts to quantify constraints on the cosmic dark flow from a new analysis of the Type Ia supernova distance-redshift relation.

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• Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure
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