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Kin-Wang Ng ()
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2nd International Workshop on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Hsinchu, Nov 5 6 , 2010
Collaborators: Yeo-Yie Charng, Hing-Tong Cho, Da-Shin Lee, Wolung Lee, I-Chin Wang, Chun-Hsien Wu
Outline
Cosmic background backgroud anisotropy and WMAP observation Primordial density perturbation
scale-invariant, running spectral index, Gaussianity
PR(k)= (/)2
PR(k)= (/)2
2=/
WMAP1
WMAP3
Low quadrupole
Eriksen et al 04 Park 04
Axis of Evil
l=2, quadrupole
l=3, octopole
Slow-roll kinematics Slow-roll conditions violated after horizon crossing (Leach et al) General slow-roll condition (Steward) |n-1|~|dn/dlnk| Multi-field (Vernizzi, Tent,
Quantum fluctuations
Chaotic inflation classical fluctuations driven by a white noise (Starobinsky) or by a colored noise
coming from high-k inflaton Driven by a colored noise from interacting quantum environment (Wu et al)
Trapped inflation (Green et al)
(Wu et al 07)
Single-field inflation= 0
semi-classical
Dissipation
Noise
imaginary part
real part
Start of inflation
ns Dissipation?
Inflaton fluctuations
Expansion parameter
Solutions
Zero order
First order
Power spectrum
early universe
e.g. black holes formed via thermal fluctuations
Scardigli et al.
present universe
Speculations
Is it possible not to fine tune inflation duration to 60 efolds? Then there must be something taking place during slow-roll inflation Formation rate must not be far below the expansion rate of inflation e.g. Collapse of density peaks of quantum fluctuations during inflation or
String Landscape
10500 de Sitter vacua Metastable, bubble nucleation via tunneling Barriers of string scale, slow tunneling rate The spacetime is a hierachy of de Sitter vacuum bubbles Most part in eternal inflation Some regions tunnel down to flat potential for slow-roll infaltion We sit in a vacuum with a small cosmological constant today
bubble radius
Work is in progress towards an explanation of large-scale CMB anomalies with black holes, domain filaments, and bubble walls
Conclusion
Hints from WMAP data on beyond standard slow-roll inflation !? A fine tuning physics just at 60 e-foldings Maybe there is a window to see the first few efoldings of inflation !? Many models give a suppressed CMB low multipoles and/or directional effects Perhaps we are all fooled by probability it is indeed a Gaussian quantum process Nongaussianity is an important check