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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 \ns>1\ns >1 on a large scale and \ns<1\ns <1 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 \ns>1\ns >1 (hybrid inflation) or \ns<1\ns <1 (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.

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@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}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D