Can thermal inflation solve the monopole problem ?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
It is shown that thermal inflation arises naturally in rank greater than five unified theories when non-renormalisable terms are introduced. Thermal inflation is driven by two Higgs fields \Phi_{B-L} and \bar{\Phi}_{B-L} which also break U(1)_{B-L} when acquiring vevs at the end of inflation. The inflationary period provides enough e-foldings to solve the monopole problem for M_{B-L} \geq 10^{12} GeV. We point out that observations suggest that M_{B-L} \simeq 10^{14} GeV.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808260,
title = {Can thermal inflation solve the monopole problem ?},
author = {R. Jeannerot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808260},
year = {2009}
}
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17 pages, uses revtex