The curvaton as a Bose--Einstein condensate of chiral pseudo Nambu--Goldstone bosons

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2006.02.002zbMATH Open1109.82306arXivhep-ph/0208267OpenAlexW2075227631MaRDI QIDQ877428FDOQ877428

Ralf Hofmann

Publication date: 20 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Explaining cosmic inflation by the effective dynamics of an $SU(N_C)$ pure gauge theory of scale $Lasim10^{-6}{M}_p$ is lacking an explanation of the (Gaussian) spatial curvature perturbations needed to seed the formation of large-scale structure after inflation. In this work it is demonstrated how fundamentally charged fermions of mass $m_{F}sim10^{-12}La$, whose approximate chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken during inflation, can cure this shortcoming. The associated gas of weakly interacting pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons (PNGB) undergoes Bose-Einstein (BE) condensation well before the end of inflation. This causes the occurence of condensed light scalar fields effectively acting as a curvaton. Fermions may also be charged under a gauge group $G$ with a weak coupling $g$. Since fermions charged under $SU(N_C)$ are confined after inflation the decay of Nambu-Goldstone bosons, which reside in the condensates and in the PNGB radiation generated at reheating, is mainly into fermions {sl solely} charged under $G$. The associated decay rate $Gamma$ is estimated using PCAC and large $N_C$ counting. PNGB decay takes place during radiation domination after cosmological scales have entered the horizon. Neglecting the effects of the spontaneous breaking of G induced by the BE condensation, it is demonstrated that the observed spectrum of spatial curvature perturbations $P_x^{1/2}isim5imes10^{-5}$ is compatible with $gsim10^{-3}$, a ratio $r_{inydec}sim10^{-4}$ of curvaton to radiation energy at PNGB decay, and a curvaton effective equation of state $p_{inycurv}=-0.9h{o}_{inycurv}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0208267

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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