Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/11/045
Keywords
alternatives to inflation; Cosmological perturbation theory in GR and beyond; cosmology of theories beyond the SM
Funding
- NSFC [11722327, 11961131007, 11653002, 11847239, 11421303]
- CAST Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship [2016QNRC001]
- National Youth Talents Program of China
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities
- CAS project for young scientists in basic research [YSBR-006]
- China Scholarship Council [202006345019]
- USTC Fellowship under the ANSO/CAS-TWAS scholarship
- GRF Grant from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [16304418]
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In this study, the bounce realization within the framework of DHOST cosmology was investigated, with a focus on the relation with observables. It was found that cosmological perturbations generated by thermal fluctuations are the most efficient, with predictions in perfect agreement with observational bounds, particularly in terms of the tensor-to-scalar ratio.
We investigate the bounce realization in the framework of DHOST cosmology, focusing on the relation with observables. We perform a detailed analysis of the scalar and tensor perturbations during the Ekpyrotic contraction phase, the bounce phase, and the fast-roll expansion phase, calculating the power spectra, the spectral indices and the tensor to-scalar ratio. Furthermore, we study the initial conditions, incorporating perturbations generated by Ekpyrotic vacuum fluctuations, by matter vacuum fluctuations, and by thermal fluctuations. The scale invariance of the scalar power spectrum can be acquired introducing a matter contraction phase before the Ekpyrotic phase, or invoking a thermal gas as the source. The DHOST bounce scenario with cosmological perturbations generated by thermal fluctuations proves to be the most efficient one, and the corresponding predictions are in perfect agreement with observational bounds. Especially the tensor-to-scalar ratio is many orders of magnitude within the allowed region, since it is suppressed by the Hubble parameter at the beginning of the bounce phase.
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