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Inflation model selection revisited

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-02-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We update the constraints on the power spectra of primordial curvature perturbation and tensor perturbation including Planck data 2015 (P15) and recently released BICEP2/Keck data (BK15), Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data and the Type Ia supernovae data. We find that the upper limits of tensor-to-scalar ratio are 0.0610.061, 0.0640.064 and 0.0720.072 at 95%95\% confidence level (CL) in the Λ\LambdaCDM+rr, Λ\LambdaCDM+rr+αs\alpha_s and Λ\LambdaCDM+rr+αs\alpha_s+βs\beta_s models respectively, where αs\alpha_s and βs\beta_s are the running of scalar spectral index and running of running. The inflation model with a concave potential is favored at more than 95%95\% CL. In addition, parametrizing the slow-roll parameter ϵ1/Np\epsilon\sim 1/N^p, where NN is the e-folding number before the end of inflation and taken in the range of [50,60][50,60] and [14,75][14,75] respectively, we conclude that the inflation model with a monomial potential V(ϕ)ϕnV(\phi)\sim \phi^n is disfavored at more than 95%95\% CL, and both the Starobinsky inflation model and brane inflation model are still consistent with the data.

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@article{arxiv.1906.01336,
  title  = {Inflation model selection revisited},
  author = {Jun Li and Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01336},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures

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