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Testing hilltop supernatural inflation with gravitational waves

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-02 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The scale of small-field inflation cannot be constrained via primordial gravitational waves through measurement of tensor-to-scalar ratio rr. In this study, I show that if cosmic strings are produced after symmetry breaking at the end of hilltop supernatural inflation, this small-field inflation model can be tested through the production of gravitational waves from cosmic strings. Future experiments of gravitational wave detectors will determine or further constrain the parameter space in the model.

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@article{arxiv.2101.11791,
  title  = {Testing hilltop supernatural inflation with gravitational waves},
  author = {Chia-Min Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.11791},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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