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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, nsn_s, as well as the tensor-to-scalar ratio, rr. These constrain the number of e-folds of inflation, NN_*, the magnitude of the inflaton coupling to matter, yy, and the reheating temperature, TrehT_{\rm reh}, which we evaluate in attractor models of inflation as formulated in no-scale supergravity. The 68% C.L. region of (ns,r)(n_s, r) favours large values of N,yN_*, y and TrehT_{\rm reh} 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}
}

Comments

v1: 9 pages, 2 figures. v2: 10 pages, 3 figures, added discussion of constraints of 2112.07961. v3: matches published version