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A No-Scale Inflationary Model to Fit Them All

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-08-25 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The magnitude of B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background as measured by BICEP2 favours models of chaotic inflation with a quadratic m2ϕ2/2m^2 \phi^2/2 potential, whereas data from the Planck satellite favour a small value of the tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio rr that is highly consistent with the Starobinsky R+R2R + R^2 model. Reality may lie somewhere between these two scenarios. In this paper we propose a minimal two-field no-scale supergravity model that interpolates between quadratic and Starobinsky-like inflation as limiting cases, while retaining the successful prediction ns0.96n_s \simeq 0.96.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0271,
  title  = {A No-Scale Inflationary Model to Fit Them All},
  author = {John Ellis and Marcos A. G. Garcia and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos and Keith A. Olive},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0271},
  year   = {2014}
}

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25 pages, 12 figures