Constraining the primordial spectrum of metric perturbations from gravitino and moduli production

We consider the production of gravitinos and moduli fields from quantum vacuum fluctuations induced by the presence of scalar metric perturbations at the end of inflation. We obtain the corresponding occupation numbers, up to first order in perturbation theory, in terms of the power spectrum of the...

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Autor: López Maroto, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59327
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59327
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Big-bang nucleosynthesis
Inhomogeneous cosmologies
Hybrid inflation
Particles
Fermions
Field
Supersymmetry
Fluctuations
Supergravity
Universe
Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:We consider the production of gravitinos and moduli fields from quantum vacuum fluctuations induced by the presence of scalar metric perturbations at the end of inflation. We obtain the corresponding occupation numbers, up to first order in perturbation theory, in terms of the power spectrum of the metric perturbations. We compute the limits imposed by nucleosynthesis on the spectral index n(s) for different models with constant n(s). The results show that, in certain cases, such limits can be as strong as n(s)<1.12, which is more stringent than those coming from primordial black hole production.