Curvaton mechanism and its implications to sneutrino cosmology

Abstract

I describe basic features of the curvaton scenario where the primordial fluctuation of a late-decaying scalar field, called ``curvaton,'' becomes the dominant source of the cosmic density fluctuations. I also discuss its implications to sneutrino cosmology.

Comments: 11 pages. Invited Talk at the Fujihara Seminar ``SEESAW 1979 - 2004: Neutrino Mass and Seesaw Mechanism'' (Feb 23 - 25, 2004, KEK, Japan). To be published in Nucl. Phys B (Proceedings Supplement)