The TeV mass curvaton

Kari Enqvist; Anupam Mazumdar; Olli Taanila

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/09/030

The TeV mass curvaton

Kari Enqvist, Anupam Mazumdar, Olli Taanila

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We consider the constraints for a curvaton with mass m ∼ (1) Ο TeV and showthat they are not consistent with a purely quadratic potential. Even if the curvaton selfinteractions are very weak, they must be accounted for as they affect the dynamical evolution of the curvature perturbation. We show that the only monomial self-interaction for a TeVmass curvaton that (a) yields the correct perturbation amplitude, (b) decays before the dark matter freeze-out, and (c) does not give rise to non-Gaussian perturbations that would be in conflict with the present limits, is given by V_int = σ⁸/M⁴. The decay width of the curvaton should be in the range Γ = 10^-15 - 10^-17GeV. The model typically predicts large nonlinearity parameters f_NL and g_NL that should be observable by the Planck satellite. We also discuss various physical possibilities to obtain the required small curvaton decay rate.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume	2010
Issue number	9
Pages (from-to)	030
ISSN	1475-7516
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/09/030
Publication status	Published - 27 Sept 2010

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