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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 ns,rn_s,r, 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.

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@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

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