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Adiabatic CMB perturbations in pre-big bang string cosmology

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arxiv hep-ph/0109214 v3 pith:JG7QCTSG submitted 2001-09-24 hep-ph astro-phhep-th

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We consider the pre-big bang scenario with a massive axion field which starts to dominate energy density when oscillating in an instanton-induced potential and subsequently reheats the universe as it decays into photons, thus creating adiabatic CMB perturbations. We find that the fluctuations in the axion field can give rise to a nearly flat spectrum of adiabatic perturbations with a spectral tilt $\Delta n$ in the range $-0.1 \lesssim \Delta n \lesssim 1$.

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