Review Article

Non-Gaussianity from Particle Production during Inflation

Figure 9

The bump-like features generated by IR cascading. We plot the feature power spectrum 𝑃 b u m p ( 𝑘 ) obtained from fully nonlinear lattice field theory simulations (the red points) and also the result of an analytical calculation (the dashed blue curve) using the formalism described in [14]. We also superpose the fitting function ~ 𝑘 3 𝑒 𝜋 𝑘 2 / ( 2 𝑘 2 ) (the solid black curve) to illustrate the accuracy of this simple formula.
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