Density perturbations from modulated decay of the curvaton

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Published 4 April 2013 © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl
, , Citation David Langlois and Tomo Takahashi JCAP04(2013)014 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/014

1475-7516/2013/04/014

Abstract

We study density perturbations, including their non-Gaussianity, in models in which the decay rate of the curvaton depends on another light scalar field, denoted the modulaton. Although this model shares some similarities with the standard curvaton and modulated reheating scenarios, it exhibits interesting predictions for fNL and gNL that are specific to this model. We also discuss the possibility that both modulaton and curvaton fluctuations contribute to the final curvature perturbation. Our results naturally include the standard curvaton and modulated reheating scenarios as specific limits and are thus useful to present a unified treatment of these models and their variants.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/014