We provide a model in which both the inflaton and the curvaton are obtained from within the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model, with known gauge and Yukawa interactions. Since now both the inflaton and curvaton fields are successfully embedded within the same sector, their decay products thermalize very quickly before the electroweak scale. This results in two important features of the model: firstly, there will be no residual isocurvature perturbations, and secondly, observable non-Gaussianities can be generated with the non-Gaussianity parameter fNL ∼ O(5 − 1000) being determined solely by the combination of weak-scale physics and the Standard Model Yukawas.The curvaton scenario [1][2][3][4] is an alternative mechanism for the generation of the primordial perturbations whose spectrum is observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) [5]. In this scenario, the density perturbations are sourced by the quantum fluctuations of a light scalar field φ, the curvaton, which makes a negligible contribution to the energy density during inflation and decays after the decay of the inflaton field σ. (For a review on inflation including the curvaton mechanism, see [6].) The advantage of the curvaton mechanism is that it can in principle generate measurable non-Gaussianity [1,7]in the primordial density perturbations and also significant residual isocurvature perturbations, neither of which are possible in the usual single-field inflation models. Both signatures are detectable, and if either were to be observed, this would strongly favour the curvaton hypothesis.If the curvaton does not completely dominate the energy density at the time of its decay, the process of conversion of initial isocurvature perturbations into adiabatic curvature perturbations can enhance nonGaussian fluctuations to the level where they might be constrained by the Planck satellite. The enhancement in non-Gaussianity is given by f NL ∼ 5/(4r) for r < 1, where r ≡ ρ φ /ρ rad at the time the curvaton decays [1]. Planck is expected to be able to detect non-Gaussianity of the order f NL 5 [8]. To achieve detectable f NL thus requires small r.However, if either the curvaton or the inflaton belong to a hidden sector beyond the Standard Model (SM), they may decay into other fields beyond the SM degrees of freedom (dof). There is no guarantee that the hidden and visible sector dof should reach thermal equilibrium before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) [9] takes place. In this case, residual isocurvature perturbations are expected to be in conflict with CMB data, which constrain them to be less than 10% [5]. If the curvaton belongs to the visible sector but the inflaton does not, a value of r ∼ 1 would avoid this conflict [10] but would render any non-Gaussianity undetectable. Note that if r ∼ 1 the curvaton is solely responsible for exciting all the SM dof so it must carry the SM charges [11,12].For the curvaton model to be observationally distinguishable, we wish the model to be able to create detectable non-Gaussianity. For this, r must be small and bo...