Does Planck really rule out monomial inflation?
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 . In cosmology, there are not enough measurements to fix 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 models, some may be ruled out by Planck whereas some remain perfectly viable. In contrast, radiative corrections do not seem to help chaotic 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