Updated dark energy view of inflation

Autor: Martin Kunz, Sveva Castello, S. Ilić
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
cosmological model
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
satellite: Planck
FOS: Physical sciences
Cosmological constant
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
hierarchy
01 natural sciences
Monte Carlo: Markov chain
Theoretical physics
symbols.namesake
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
power spectrum: scalar
Astronomi
astrofysik och kosmologi

98.80.-k
0103 physical sciences
Astronomy
Astrophysics and Cosmology

Planck
dark energy
constituent
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
equation of state
Physics
Inflation (cosmology)
Spectral index
cosmological constant
Hubble constant
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Equation of state (cosmology)
98.80.Es
inflation: slow-roll approximation
Order (ring theory)
95.36.+x
Inflaton
BICEP
inflation: model
inflaton
field theory: scalar
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
[PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph]
symbols
Dark energy
history
expansion: acceleration
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Zdroj: Physical Review D
Physical Review D, 2021, 104 (2), pp.023522. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.104.023522⟩
Physical Review D, American Physical Society, 2021, 104 (2), pp.023522. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.104.023522⟩
ISSN: 1550-7998
1550-2368
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.023522⟩
Popis: The present epoch of accelerated cosmic expansion is supposed to be driven by an unknown constituent called dark energy, which in the standard model takes the form of a cosmological constant, characterized by a constant equation of state w=-1. An interesting perspective over the role and nature of dark energy can be achieved by drawing a parallel with a previous epoch of accelerated expansion, inflation, which we assume to be driven by a single scalar field, the inflaton. Since the Planck satellite has constrained the value of $n_s$ away from 1, the inflaton cannot be identified with a pure cosmological constant, as is also suggested by the fact that inflation ended. Thus, it is interesting to verify whether a hypothetical observer would have been able to measure the deviation of the w of the inflaton from -1. To do so, we consider a class of single-field slow-roll inflationary models dubbed HSR{i}, where the hierarchy of Hubble slow-roll parameters is truncated at the i-th order. The models are tested through a MCMC analysis based on combinations of the latest Planck and BICEP2/Keck data sets, and the resulting chains are converted into sets of allowed evolution histories of w. HSR{1} is excluded observationally since it would predict that $n_s=1$, in contrast with the recent Planck constraints, while we find that HSR{2} would prefer w>-1, but is disfavoured by the addition of the BICEP2/Keck data. The overall best description for the data is provided by HSR{3}, which yields a 68% upper bound of 1+w
9 pages, 3 figures; updated to match published version
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