Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 732, Issue -, Pages 116-121Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.03.029
Keywords
Warm inflation; Chaotic inflation; Cosmic Microwave Background
Funding
- STFC
- MICINN [FIS2010-17395]
- Junta de Andalucia [FQM101]
- CNPq [301059/2009-8]
- FAPERJ (Brazil) [103.161/2011]
- FCT [SFRH/BPD/85969/2012]
- Marie Curie action [NRHEP-295189-FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES]
- [PTDC/FIS/116625/2010]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/85969/2012, PTDC/FIS/116625/2010] Funding Source: FCT
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000329/1, ST/L000458/1, ST/G000522/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/L000458/1, ST/G000522/1, ST/J000329/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The amplitude of primordial curvature perturbations is enhanced when a radiation bath at a temperature T > H is sustained during inflation by dissipative particle production, which is particularly significant when a non-trivial statistical ensemble of inflaton fluctuations is also maintained. Since gravitational modes are oblivious to dissipative dynamics, this generically lowers the tensor-to-scalar ratio and yields a modified consistency relation for warm inflation, as well as changing the tilt of the scalar spectrum. We show that this alters the landscape of observationally allowed inflationary models, with for example the quartic chaotic potential being in very good agreement with the Planck results for nearly-thermal inflaton fluctuations, whilst essentially ruled out for an underlying vacuum state. We also discuss other simple models that are in agreement with the Planck data within a renormalizable model of warm inflation. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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