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Quadratic, Higgs and hilltop potentials in the Palatini gravity

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-08-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this work, we study inflation with the non-minimally coupled quadratic, Standard Model (SM) Higgs and hilltop potentials through ξϕ2R\xi \phi^2R term in the Palatini gravity. We first analyze observational parameters of Palatini quadratic potential as functions of ξ\xi for high-NN scenario and low-NN scenario. In addition to this, taking into account inflaton ϕ\phi has a non-zero vacuum expectation value vv afterwards inflation, we display observational parameters of well-known symmetry-breaking potentials type of Higgs potential and its generalizations which are hilltop potentials in the Palatini formalism for high-NN scenario and low-NN scenario. We calculate inflationary parameters of Palatini Higgs potential as functions of vv for different ξ\xi values where inflaton values both ϕ>v\phi>v and ϕ<v\phi<v during inflation as well as we show that observational parameters of Palatini Higgs potential in the induced gravity limit for high-NN scenario. On the other hand, we illustrate different from the Higgs potential the effect of ξ\xi on hilltop potentials which can agree with the observations for inflaton value solely ϕ<v\phi<v and ξ\xi, v1v\ll1 for both two scenarios, which we mentioned above. For each considered potentials, we also display nsrn_s-r values fit the current data given by the Keck Array/BICEP2 and Planck collaborations.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09674,
  title  = {Quadratic, Higgs and hilltop potentials in the Palatini gravity},
  author = {Nilay Bostan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09674},
  year   = {2020}
}

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1+21 pages, 18 figures