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Inflation model constraints from data released in 2015

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2016-05-20 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We provide the latest constraints on the power spectra of both scalar and tensor perturbations from the CMB data (including \textit{Planck}~2015, BICEP2 \& \textit{Keck Array} experiments) and the new BAO scales from SDSS-III BOSS observation. We find that the inflation model with a convex potential is not favored and both the inflation model with a monomial potential and the natural inflation model are marginally disfavored at around 95%95\% confidence level. But both the Brane inflation model and the Starobinsky inflation model fit the data quite well.

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@article{arxiv.1512.07769,
  title  = {Inflation model constraints from data released in 2015},
  author = {Qing-Guo Huang and Ke Wang and Sai Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07769},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, 2 table, 5 figures. Version accepted by PRD

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