Inflation, Large Scale Structure and Particle Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
We review experimental and theoretical developments in inflation and its application to structure formation, including the curvaton idea. We then discuss a particle physics model of supersymmetric hybrid inflation at the intermediate scale in which the Higgs scalar field is responsible for large scale structure, and show how such a theory is completely natural in the framework extra dimensions with an intermediate string scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0304264,
title = {Inflation, Large Scale Structure and Particle Physics},
author = {S. F. King},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0304264},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Invited talk at 9th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 03), Mumbai (Bombay) India, 3-8 Jan 2003. References added. 12 pages, 8 figs, style files included