Flattening the Inflaton's Potential with Quantum Corrections II
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-08-24 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In a previous paper I showed that a classical scalar potential with can be sufficiently flattened by quantum corrections to give rise to slow-roll inflation. In this paper I give a hybrid inflation implementation of that idea which can naturally produce a spectral index in the observationally viable range even for to GeV. Although any observationally viable spectral index can be obtained, the model does predict a distinctive spectral shape.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703232,
title = {Flattening the Inflaton's Potential with Quantum Corrections II},
author = {Ewan D. Stewart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703232},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
14 pages, latex, 3 epsf figures