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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 71, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.063526
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In this work we show that the gravitational Chem-Simons term, aside from being a key ingredient in inflationary baryogenesis, modifies superhorizon gravitational waves produced during inflation. We compute the super-Hubble gravitational power spectrum in the slow-roll approximation and show that its overall amplitude is modified while its spectral index remains unchanged (at leading order in the slow-roll parameters). Then, we calculate the correction to the tensor to scalar ratio, T/S. We find a correction of T/S which is dependent on N (more precisely quadratic in N), the parameter characterizing the amplitude of the Chem-Simons terms. In a stringy embedding of the leptogenesis mechanism, N is the ratio between the Planck scale and the fundamental string scale. Thus, in principle, we provide a direct probe of leptogenesis due to stringy dynamics in the cosmic microwave background. However, we demonstrate that the corresponding correction of T/S is in fact very small and not observable in the regime where our calculations are valid. To obtain a sizable effect, we argue that a nonlinear calculation is necessary.
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