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arxiv: 0807.3069 · v1 · pith:NIY52XLNnew · submitted 2008-07-19 · 🌌 astro-ph · hep-ph

Signatures of Non-Gaussianity in the Curvaton Model

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keywords curvatonnon-gaussianitymodelnon-linearitynon-quadraticparameterpotentialquadratic
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We discuss the signatures of non-Gaussianity in the curvaton model where the potential includes also a non-quadratic term. In such a case the non-linearity parameter f_NL can become very small, and we show that non-Gaussianity is then encoded in the non-reducible non-linearity parameter g_NL of the trispectrum, which can be very large. Thus the place to look for the non-Gaussianity in the curvaton model may be the trispectrum rather than the bispectrum. We also show that g_NL measures directly the deviation of the curvaton potential from the purely quadratic form. While g_NL depends on the strength of the non-quadratic terms relative to the quadratic one, we find that for reasonable cases roughly g_NL\sim O(-10^4)-O(-10^5), which are values that may well be accessible by future observations.

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