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Testing supersymmetric Higgs inflation with non-Gaussianity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-12-21 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate multi-field signatures of the nonminimally coupled supersymmetric Higgs inflation-type cosmological scenario, focusing on the two-field Higgs-lepton inflation model as a concrete example. This type of inflationary model is realized in a theory beyond the Standard Model embedded in supergravity with a noncanonical K\"{a}hler potential. We employ the backward δN\delta N formalism to compute cosmological observables, including the scalar and tensor power spectra, the spectral indices, the tensor-to-scalar ratio and the local-type nonlinearity parameter. The trajectory of the inflaton is controlled by the initial conditions of the inflaton as well as by the coefficients in the K\"{a}hler potential. We analyze the bispectrum of the primordial fluctuations when the inflaton trajectory deviates from a straight line, and obtain constraints on the noncanonical terms of the K\"{a}hler potential using the Planck satellite data. Our analysis represents a concrete particle phenomenology-based case study of inflation in which primordial non-Gaussianities can reveal aspects of supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.1411.5188,
  title  = {Testing supersymmetric Higgs inflation with non-Gaussianity},
  author = {Shinsuke Kawai and Jinsu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.5188},
  year   = {2015}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures, revtex4. v2: typos corrected, comments and references added, version to be published, v3: typos corrected

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