Inflation with a running spectral index in supergravity
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
The first year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data favors primordial adiabatic fluctuation with a running spectral index with on a large scale and on a smaller scale. The model building of inflation that predicts perturbations with such a spectrum is a challenge, because most models predict fluctuations with either (hybrid inflation) or (new, chaotic, or topological inflation). We give a sensible particle physics model in supergravity that accommodates the desired running of the spectral index using double inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0304161,
title = {Inflation with a running spectral index in supergravity},
author = {M. Kawasaki and Masahide Yamaguchi and Jun'ichi Yokoyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0304161},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D