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Non-Gaussianity in the HILC foreground-reduced three-year WMAP CMB map
A detection or nondetection of primordial non-Gaussianity in the CMB data is
essential not only to test alternative models of the physics of the early
universe but also to discriminate among classes of inflationary models. Given
this far reaching consequences of such a non-Gaussianity detection for our
understanding of the physics of the early universe, it is important to employ
alternative indicators in order to have further information about the
Gaussianity features of CMB that may be helpful for identifying their origins.
In this way, a considerable effort has recently gone into the design of
non-Gaussianity indicators, and in their application in the search for
deviation from Gaussianity in the CMB data. Recently we have proposed two new
large-angle non-Gaussianity indicators which provide measures of the departure
from Gaussianity on large angular scales. We have used these indicators to
carry out analyses of Gaussianity of the single frequency bands and of the
available foreground-reduced {\it five-year} maps with and without the KQ75
mask. Here we extend and complement these studies by performing a new analysis
of deviation from Gaussianity of the {\it three-year} harmonic ILC (HILC)
foreground-reduced full-sky and KQ75 masked maps obtained from WMAP data. We
show that this full-sky foreground-reduced maps presents a significant
deviation from Gaussianity, which is brought down to a level of consistency
with Gaussianity when the KQ75 mask is employed.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. To appear in IJMPD (2010). V2: Corrected ref.[8]
Non-Gaussianity from Baryon Asymmetry
We study a scenario that large non-Gaussianity arises from the baryon
asymmetry of the Universe. There are baryogenesis scenarios containing a light
scalar field, which may result in baryonic isocurvature perturbations with some
amount of non-Gaussianity. As an explicit example we consider the Affleck-Dine
mechanism and show that a flat direction of the supersymmeteric standard model
can generate large non-Gaussianity in the curvature perturbations, satisfying
the observational constraints on the baryonic isocurvature perturbations. The
sign of a non-linearity parameter, f_{NL}, is negative, if the Affleck-Dine
mechanism accounts for the observed baryon asymmetry; otherwise it can be
either positive or negative.Comment: 25 pages, 7 figures; minor correction, references added; version to
appear in JCA
Electromagnetic Cascade in the Early Universe and its Application to the Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
We investigate the electromagnetic cascade initiated by injection of very
high energy photons in the early Universe and calculate the cascade spectrum by
solving a set of Boltzmann equations numerically. In the calculation we take
account of Compton scattering off the background electrons and pair creation
off the background nucleons as well as photon-photon processes and inverse
Compton scattering. We also apply our cascade spectrum to the big bang
nucleosynthesis with photo-dissociation processes due to heavy unstable
particles and obtain the constraint on their lifetime and abundance.Comment: 21pages (compressed and uuencoded postscript file including 6
figures
511 keV Gamma Ray from Moduli Decay in the Galactic Bulge
We show that the decay of a light scalar boson of mass 1-10 MeV may
account for the fluxes of 511 keV gamma ray observed by SPI/INTEGRAL. We argue
that candidates of such a light scalar boson is one of the string moduli or a
scalar partner of the axion in a supersymmetric theory.Comment: 6 pages, no figure, we have added an appendix to describe the
dilution of the moduli by the thermal inflation and some minor correction
Gravitino Production in the Inflationary Universe and the Effects on Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
Gravitino production and decay in the inflationary universe are reexamined.
Assuming that the gravitino mainly decays into a photon and a photino, we
calculate the upperbound on the reheating temperature. Compared to previous
works, we have essentially improved the following two points: (i) the helicity
gravitino production cross sections are calculated by using
the full relevant terms in the supergravity lagrangian, and (ii) the high
energy photon spectrum is obtained by solving the Boltzmann equations
numerically. Photo-dissociation of the light elements (D, T, He, He)
leads to the most stringent upperbound on the reheating temperature, which is
given by (--)GeV for the gravitino mass 100GeV--1TeV. On the
other hand, requiring that the present mass density of photino should be
smaller than the critical density, we find that the reheating temperature have
to be smaller than (--)GeV for the photino mass (10--100)GeV,
irrespectively of the gravitino mass. The effect of other decay channels is
also considered
Double inflation in supergravity and the primordial black hole formation
We study a double inflation model (a hybrid inflation + a new inflation) in
supergravity and discuss the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) with
mass \sim 10^{-20}-10^{5}M_{\odot}. We find that in a wide range of parameter
space, we obtain PBHs which amount to \Omega \simeq 1, i.e., PBH dark matter.
Also, we find a set of inflation parameters which produces PBHs evaporating
now. Those PBHs may be responsible for antiproton fluxes observed by the BESS
experiment.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figures (RevTeX file
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