Mixed inflaton and curvaton perturbations

Abstract

A recent variant of the inflationary paradigm is that the ``primordial'' curvature perturbations come from quantum fluctuations of a scalar field, subdominant and effectively massless during inflation, called the ``curvaton'', instead of the fluctuations of the inflaton field. We consider the situation where the primordial curvature perturbations generated by the quantum fluctuations of an inflaton and of a curvaton field are of the same order of magnitude. We compute the curvature perturbation and its spectrum in this case and we discuss the observational consequences.

28 pages, accepted for Phys. Rev. D

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