- pascos2012@pegaso.fisica.unam.mx
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Contribution Contributed (oral)
Speakers
- Dr. Takeshi KOBAYASHI
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- Dr. Takeshi KOBAYASHI (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto)
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The curvaton scenario provides a simple explanation for the generation of the cosmological perturbations, however most works have focused on cases with rather trivial curvaton energy potentials, e.g. quadratic ones. In this talk I will present the rich phenomenology of curvatons by showing that non-quadratic curvatons exhibit new behaviors, leading to interesting signals in the resulting density perturbations. Especially, I will show that curvaton potentials that are flatter compared to a quadratic lead to enhancement of the linear and second-order density perturbations, while steepend potentials can generate strongly scale-dependent non-Gaussianity. Our analyses are analytic, and thus provide a systematic framework for studying curvatons in general.