Particle Production during Inflation in Light of PLANCK
arXiv:1309.4082 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.123523
Abstract
We consider trapped inflation in a higher dimensional field space: particle production at a dense distribution of extra species points leads to a terminal velocity at which inflation can be driven in steep potentials. We compute an additional, nearly scale invariant contribution to the power-spectrum, caused by back-scattering of the continuously produced particles. Since this contribution has a blue tilt, it has to be sub-dominant, leading to an upper bound on the coupling constant between the inflatons and the extra species particles. The remaining allowed parameter space is narrow.
v.2. 11 pages, 3 figures; considerably revised (faulty computation cut); qualitative conclusions are unaffected
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