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Quartic inflation and radiative corrections with non-minimal coupling

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-10-11 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

It is well known that the non-minimal coupling ξϕ2R\xi\phi^2R between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar affects predictions of single field inflation models. In particular, the λϕ4\lambda\phi^4 quartic inflation potential with ξ0.005\xi\gtrsim0.005 is one of the simplest models that agree with the current data. After reviewing the inflationary predictions of this potential, we analyze the effects of the radiative corrections due to couplings of the inflaton to other scalar fields or fermions. Using two different prescriptions discussed in the literature, we calculate the range of these coupling parameter values for which the spectral index nsn_s and the tensor-to-scalar ratio rr are in agreement with the data taken by the Keck Array/BICEP2 and Planck collaborations.

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@article{arxiv.1907.06215,
  title  = {Quartic inflation and radiative corrections with non-minimal coupling},
  author = {Nilay Bostan and Vedat Nefer Şenoğuz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06215},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

1+18 pages, 10 figures. v2: fixed typos, added references. v3: expanded introduction, added references, matches published version

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