Density perturbations in hybrid inflation

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Son, Nguyen Thanh
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
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Alan H. Guth.
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Abstract
Inflation is a substantial modification to the big bang theory, and supernatural inflation is a hybrid inflation motivated from supersymmetry. In this thesis we carry out a one dimensional numerical simulation to verify the untested analytic approximation of Radall et al. The results show a good agreement for a wide range of parameters. We also propose a new method for calculating density perturbations in hybrid inflation, which shows an excellent agreement with the simulation in one dimension.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2009.
 
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
 
Includes bibliographical references (page 35).
 
Date issued
2009
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85770
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Physics.
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