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CP-violating inflation and its cosmological imprints

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-09-22 v2

Abstract

We study models with several SU(2)SU(2) scalar doublets where the inert doublets have a non-minimal coupling to gravity and play the role of the inflaton. We allow for this coupling to be complex, thereby introducing CP-violation -- a necessary source of the baryon asymmetry -- in the Higgs-inflaton couplings. We investigate the inflationary dynamics of the model and discuss how the CP-violation of the model is imprinted on the particle asymmetries after inflation in the hot big bang universe.

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@article{arxiv.2102.07777,
  title  = {CP-violating inflation and its cosmological imprints},
  author = {Venus Keus and Kimmo Tuominen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07777},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

the version accepted for publication in PRD, 15 pages, 7 figures