BICEP/Keck Constraints on Attractor Models of Inflation and Reheating
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2022-02-16 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
Recent BICEP/Keck data on the cosmic microwave background, in combination with previous WMAP and Planck data, impose strong new constraints on the tilt in the scalar perturbation spectrum, , as well as the tensor-to-scalar ratio, . These constrain the number of e-folds of inflation, , the magnitude of the inflaton coupling to matter, , and the reheating temperature, , which we evaluate in attractor models of inflation as formulated in no-scale supergravity. The 68% C.L. region of favours large values of and that are constrained by the production of gravitinos and supersymmetric dark matter.
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@article{arxiv.2112.04466,
title = {BICEP/Keck Constraints on Attractor Models of Inflation and Reheating},
author = {John Ellis and Marcos A. G. Garcia and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos and Keith A. Olive and Sarunas Verner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04466},
year = {2022}
}
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v1: 9 pages, 2 figures. v2: 10 pages, 3 figures, added discussion of constraints of 2112.07961. v3: matches published version