Small-scale Features of Thermal Inflation: CMB Distortion, Substructure Abundance, and 21cm Power Spectrum

Thermal inflation is an additional inflationary mechanism before the big bang nucleosynthesis, which solves the moduli problem and naturally provides a plausible dark matter candidate. Thermal inflation leaves a slight enhancement followed by huge suppression of a factor of ~50 in the curvature and matter power spectrum, which can be expressed in terms of a single characteristic scale $k_b$. Here we describe the observability of the small-scale features of thermal inflation from various observations, such as CMB distortion, satellite galaxy abundance in the Milky-Way-sized galaxies, and 21-cm power spectrum before the epoch of reionization.