Multiple scalar particle decay and perturbation generation

DOI10.1063/1.2823811MaRDI QIDQ3650758zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 15 December 2009

Published in AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2939

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study the evolution of the universe which contains a multiple number of non-relativistic scalar fields decaying into both radiation and pressureless matter. We present a powerful analytic formalism to calculate the matter and radiation curvature perturbations, and find that our analytic estimates agree with full numerical results within an error of less than one percent. Also we discuss the isocurvature perturbation between matter and radiation components, which may be detected by near future cosmological observations, and point out that it crucially depends on the branching ratio of the decay rate of the scalar fields and that it is hard to make any model independent predictions.

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