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Towards a realistic solution of the cosmological constant fine-tuning problem by Higgs inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2014-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Why the cosmological constant Λ\Lambda observed today is so much smaller than the Planck scale or why the universe is accelerating at present? This is so-called the cosmological constant fine-tuning problem. In this paper, we find that this problem is solved with the help of Higgs inflation by simply assuming a variable cosmological "constant" during the inflation epoch. In the meanwhile, it could predict a large tensor-to-scalar ratio r0.20r\approx 0.20 and a large running of spectral index ns0.028n'_s \approx -0.028 with a red-tilt spectrum ns0.96n_s \approx 0.96, as well as a big enough number of e-folds N40N\approx 40 that required to solve the problems in the Big Bang cosmology with the help of Λ\Lambda.

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@article{arxiv.1405.3056,
  title  = {Towards a realistic solution of the cosmological constant fine-tuning problem by Higgs inflation},
  author = {Chao-Jun Feng and Xin-Zhou Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.3056},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1404.3817