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Does Planck really rule out monomial inflation?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-18 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the modifications of monomial chaotic inflation models due to radiative corrections induced by inflaton couplings to bosons and/or fermions necessary for reheating. To the lowest order, ignoring gravitational corrections and treating the inflaton as a classical background field, they are of the Coleman-Weinberg type and parametrized by the renormalization scale μ\mu. In cosmology, there are not enough measurements to fix μ\mu so that we end up with a family of models, each having a slightly different slope of the potential. We demonstrate by explicit calculation that within the family of chaotic ϕ2\phi^2 models, some may be ruled out by Planck whereas some remain perfectly viable. In contrast, radiative corrections do not seem to help chaotic ϕ4\phi^{4} models to meet the Planck constraints.

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@article{arxiv.1312.5944,
  title  = {Does Planck really rule out monomial inflation?},
  author = {Kari Enqvist and Mindaugas Karciauskas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5944},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures and 1 table

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