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Cosmological perturbations in \bar{QCD}- inflation. Estimates confronting the observations, including BICEP2

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-08-13 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled QCD- like gauge theory with scale ΛQCD1017{\Lambda_{\overline{\mathrm{QCD}}}} \sim 10^{17} GeV in expanding universe. Inflaton in this QCD{\overline{\mathrm{QCD}}}- inflation framework is an auxiliary non-propagating field, similar to an effective field known to emerge in topologically ordered condensed matter systems. Number of e-folds in the QCD{\overline{\mathrm{QCD}}}-inflation framework is determined by the gauge coupling constant at the moment of inflation, and estimated as Ninfα2(H0)102N_{\rm inf}\sim \alpha^{-2}(H_0)\sim 10^2. We analyze the equation of state in this framework at the end of inflation in terms of the gauge dynamics and confront our estimates with observations. We make predictions for the tensor tilt, nt0.02n_t \simeq -0.02, the running of the tensor tilt αt=nt/lnkα4(H0)104\alpha_t= {\partial n_t}/{\partial \ln k}\sim \alpha^4(H_0)\sim 10^{-4} and the running for the spectral index αs=ns/lnkα4(H0)104\alpha_s= {\partial n_s}/{\partial \ln k}\sim \alpha^4(H_0)\sim 10^{-4} in terms of the same gauge coupling constant α(H0)\alpha(H_0), which is fixed in our framework by recent BICEP2 measurements of the tensor fraction r0.2r\simeq 0.2.

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@article{arxiv.1404.5965,
  title  = {Cosmological perturbations in \bar{QCD}- inflation. Estimates confronting the observations, including BICEP2},
  author = {Ariel R. Zhitnitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.5965},
  year   = {2014}
}

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New refs, including some lattice studies, supporting the linear dependence on Hubble constant "H". Few new comments emphasizing the importance of a non-trivial holonomy. Final version to appear in Phys Rev. D