Tiwari, Y and Bhaumik, N and Jain, RK (2023) Understanding large scale CMB anomalies with the generalized nonminimal derivative coupling during inflation. In: Physical Review D, 107 (10).
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Abstract
We study the observational implications of a class of inflationary models wherein the inflaton is coupled to the Einstein tensor through a generalized nonminimal derivative coupling (GNMDC). In particular, we explore whether these models can generate suitable features in the primordial spectrum of curvature perturbations as a possible explanation for the large-scale anomalies associated with the angular power spectrum of CMB temperature anisotropies. We derive model-independent constraints on the GNMDC function for such a scenario, considering both the scalar and tensor perturbations. We modify cosmomc to accommodate our GNMDC framework and investigate different classes of inflationary models using a fully consistent numerical approach. We find that the hilltop-quartic model with a specific choice of the GNMDC function provides a considerable improvement over the best-fit reference ΛCDM model with a nearly scale-invariant power spectrum. While the large-scale structure observations should be able to provide independent constraints, future CMB experiments, such as CMB-S4 and CMB-Bharat, are expected to constrain further the parameter space of such beyond canonical single-field inflationary models.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Physical Review D |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the publisher. |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Joint Astronomy Programme Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2023 05:24 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jun 2023 05:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/82033 |
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