Candidates for Inflaton in Quiver Gauge Theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The inflaton necessary to implement the mechanism of inflationary cosmology has natural candidates in quiver gauge theory. We discuss the dimensionless coefficients of quartic couplings and enumerate scalars which are singlet under the low-energy gauge group. The inflaton mass is generally predicted to be in the TeV region, close to 4 TeV for one specific unified model. A quartic inflaton potential, and a mutated hybrid inflation, are discussed. They can give adequate inflation and appropriate fluctuations but different spectral indices.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402119,
title = {Candidates for Inflaton in Quiver Gauge Theory},
author = {Paul H. Frampton and Tomo Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402119},
year = {2009}
}
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