Features of heavy physics in the CMB power spectrum

A Achucarro, JO Gong, S Hardeman… - … of Cosmology and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The computation of the primordial power spectrum in multi-field inflation models requires us
to correctly account for all relevant interactions between adiabatic and non-adiabatic modes …

Effective theories of single field inflation when heavy fields matter

A Achucarro, JO Gong, S Hardeman, GA Palma… - Journal of High Energy …, 2012 - Springer
We compute the low energy effective field theory (EFT) expansion for singlefield inflationary
models that descend from a parent theory containing multiple other scalar fields. By …

Heavy fields, reduced speeds of sound, and decoupling during inflation

A Achucarro, V Atal, S Cespedes, JO Gong… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
We discuss and clarify the validity of effective single-field theories of inflation obtained by
integrating out heavy degrees of freedom in the regime where adiabatic perturbations …

Strongly coupled perturbations in two-field inflationary models

S Cremonini, Z Lalak, K Turzyński - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We study models of inflation with two scalar fields and non-canonical kinetic terms, focusing
on the case in which the curvature and isocurvature perturbations are strongly coupled to …

On the importance of heavy fields during inflation

S Cespedes, V Atal, GA Palma - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the dynamics of two-field models of inflation characterized by a hierarchy of
masses between curvature and isocurvature modes. When the hierarchy is large, a low …

Universality of multi-field α-attractors

A Achúcarro, R Kallosh, A Linde… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We study a particular version of the theory of cosmological α-attractors with α= 1/3, in which
both the dilaton (inflaton) field and the axion field are light during inflation. The kinetic terms …

Flat monodromies and a moduli space size conjecture

A Hebecker, P Henkenjohann, LT Witkowski - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We investigate how super-Planckian axions can arise when type IIB 3-form flux is
used to restrict a two-axion field space to a one-dimensional winding trajectory. If one does …

Multifield inflation beyond Nfield= 2: non-Gaussianities and single-field effective theory

L Pinol - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this article, we study in detail the linear dynamics and cubic interactions for any number N
field of scalar fields during inflation, directly in terms of the observable curvature perturbation …

Cumulative effects in inflation with ultra-light entropy modes

A Achúcarro, V Atal, C Germani… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In multi-field inflation one or more non-adiabatic modes may become light, potentially
inducing large levels of isocurvature perturbations in the cosmic microwave background. If in …

Landscape tomography through primordial non-Gaussianity

X Chen, GA Palma, W Riquelme, B Scheihing H… - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
In this paper, we show how the structure of the landscape potential of the primordial
Universe may be probed through the properties of the primordial density perturbations …