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$\alpha$-Attractor and Reheating in a Model with Non-Canonical Scalar Fields

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider two non-canonical scalar fields (tachyon and DBI) with E-model type of the potential. We study cosmological inflation in these models to find possible α\alpha-attractors. We show that similar to the canonical scalar field case, in both tachyon and DBI models there is a value of the scalar spectral index in small α\alpha limit which is just a function of the e-folds number. However, the value of nsn_{s} in DBI model is somewhat different from the other ones. We also compare the results with Planck2015 TT, TE, EE+lowP data. The reheating phase after inflation is studied in these models which gives some more constraints on the model's parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1802.09185,
  title  = {$\alpha$-Attractor and Reheating in a Model with Non-Canonical Scalar Fields},
  author = {Narges Rashidi and Kourosh Nozari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09185},
  year   = {2018}
}

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22 pages, 9 figures, To appear in IJMPD