13–18 Sept 2010
Lecce, Università del Salento
Europe/Rome timezone
The 4th UniverseNet Annual School - Lecce, 13-18 September 2010

Mr. TAANILA, Olli (Helsinki Institute of Physics): A TeV-mass Curvaton

14 Sept 2010, 15:30
15m
Lecce, Università del Salento

Lecce, Università del Salento

Via Michele De Pietro, 12 I-73100 Lecce (LE)

Description

We consider a curvaton with a mass of 1 TeV and show that the constraints are not consistent with a purely quadratic potential. We then show that the only self-interaction consistent with all the constraints is of the form V_int = sigma^8/M^4. We also compute the values of non-Gaussianity parameters f_NL and g_NL.
ArXiv number (if any) 1007.0657

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