Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/033
Keywords
inflation; cosmological perturbation theory; physics of the early universe
Funding
- D-ITP consortium, a program of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) - Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
- Chinese Scholarschip Council (CSC)
- Hunan Provincial Department of Education [19B464, 19B46]
- Hunan Natural Provincial Science Foundation [2020JJ5452]
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This study investigates scalar cosmological perturbations generated through nonminimal coupling in two-field inflationary models with a focus on curvaton scenarios. It shows that small, negative nonminimal couplings can contribute to a redder curvature spectrum, potentially saving some curvaton scenarios that would otherwise be ruled out. The study also highlights the impact of nonminimal coupling on the postinflationary growth of the spectator perturbation and the effectiveness of the curvaton mechanism.
We investigate two-field inflationary models in which scalar cosmological pertubations are generated via a spectator field nonminimally coupled to gravity, with the particular emphasis on curvaton scenarios. The principal advantage of these models is in the possibility to tune the spectator spectral index via the nonminimal coupling. Our models naturally yield red spectrum of the adiabatic perturbation demanded by observations. We study how the nonminimal coupling affects the spectrum of the curvature perturbation generated in the curvaton scenarios. In particular we find that for small, negative nonminimal couplings the spectral index gets a contribution that is negative and linear in the nonminimal coupling. Since in this way the curvature spectrum becomes redder, some of curvaton scenarios can be saved, which would otherwise be ruled out. In the power law inflation we find that a large nonminimal coupling is excluded since it gives the principal slow-roll parameter that is of the order of unity. Finally, we point out that nonminimal coupling can affect the postinflationary growth of the spectator perturbation, and in this way the effectiveness of the curvaton mechanism.
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