Conformal inflation with chameleon coupling
High Energy Physics - Theory
2019-04-24 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We investigate the possibility that the inflaton, in particular in conformal inflation models, is also a chameleon, i.e. that it couples to the energy density of some heavy non-relativistic matter present during inflation. We find new and interesting attractor behaviours, either prolonging inflation, or changing the observables , depending on the sign of the chameleon coupling exponent. We also check that the chameleon coupling with the heavy matter field strongly suppress entropy modes during inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.10408,
title = {Conformal inflation with chameleon coupling},
author = {Heliudson Bernardo and Renato Costa and Horatiu Nastase and Amanda Weltman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10408},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
28 pages, 11 figures; reference added; section 4 reviewed