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 potential, whereas data from the Planck satellite favour a small value of the tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio that is highly consistent with the Starobinsky 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 .
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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