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Beginning of Universe through large field hybrid inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-07-01 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Recent detection of BB-mode polarization induced from tensor perturbations by the BICEP2 experiment implies so-called large field inflation, where an inflaton field takes super-Planckian expectation value during inflation, at a high energy scale. We show however, if another inflation follows hybrid inflation, the hybrid inflation can generate a large tensor perturbation with not super-Plankian but Planckian field value. This scenario would relax the tension between BICEP2 and Planck concerning the tensor-to-scalar ratio, because a negative large running can also be obtained for a certain number of e-fold of the hybrid inflation. A natural interpretation of a large gravitational wave mode with or without the scalar spectral running might be multiple inflation in the early Universe.

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@article{arxiv.1404.3102,
  title  = {Beginning of Universe through large field hybrid inflation},
  author = {Tatsuo Kobayashi and Osamu Seto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.3102},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures, the final journal version