Cosmology from Rolling Massive Scalar Field on the anti-D3 Brane of de Sitter Vacua

TL;DR

This paper explores a string-inspired cosmological model with a rolling massive scalar field on an anti-D3 brane, demonstrating its compatibility with observational data and its potential to explain dark energy within a KKLT vacua framework.

Contribution

It introduces a novel inflationary scenario involving a massive scalar on an anti-D3 brane, showing its viability and implications for cosmology and dark energy.

Findings

The scenario produces acceptable density perturbations consistent with CMB data.

Reheating is successfully achieved with the scalar field acting as pressureless dust.

The model can account for dark energy if the potential energy does not fully cancel the negative cosmological constant.

Abstract

We investigate a string-inspired scenario associated with a rolling massive scalar field on D-branes and discuss its cosmological implications. In particular, we discuss cosmological evolution of the massive scalar field on the ant-D3 brane of KKLT vacua. Unlike the case of tachyon field, because of the warp factor of the anti-D3 brane, it is possible to obtain the required level of amplitude of density perturbations. We study the spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations generated during the rolling scalar inflation and show that our scenario satisfies the observational constraint coming from the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies and other observational data. We also implement the negative cosmological constant arising from the stabilization of the modulus fields in the KKLT vacua and find that this leads to a successful reheating in which the energy density of the scalar field effectively scales as a pressureless dust. The present dark energy can be also explained in our scenario provided that the potential energy of the massive rolling scalar does not exactly cancel with the amplitude of the negative cosmological constant at the potential minimum.