Non-standard primordial clocks from induced mass in alternative to inflation scenarios

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/026MaRDI QIDQ5035284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yi Wang, Zun Wang, Yuhang Zhu

Publication date 21 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09677

zbMATH Keywords

non-Gaussianityinflationcosmological perturbation theoryalternatives to inflationnon-standard clocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: In the primordial universe, oscillations of heavy fields can be considered as standard clocks to measure the expansion or contraction history of the universe. Those standard clocks provide a model-independent way of distinguishing inflation and alternative scenarios. However, the mass of the heavy fields may not be a constant mass, but rather mass dynamically generated by non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar, or self-interactions. In the case of dynamically generated mass, the mass of the heavy field is generically of order Hubble, and thus is time-dependent in alternative to inflation scenarios. We show that such dynamically generated mass terms can be considered as non-standard primordial clocks for alternative to inflation, providing similar oscillatory frequencies as standard clocks of inflation. Additional information on scale dependence can distinguish such non-standard clocks from standard clocks.

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