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Two-field inflation with non-minimal coupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-13 v3

Abstract

Motivated by the recent `Higgs-inflation' scenario based on a single inflaton field, we consider more generic two-field inflation with non-minimal coupling term. The generic analytic expressions are derived for cosmological observables with the product-separable as well as additive-separable potentials when the non-minimal coupling term is dominated by one of the two fields. A hybrid model of the inflaton potential V=μ2ϕ2[1+cos(χ/σ)]V=\mu^2 \phi^2 \left[1+\cos(\chi/\sigma)\right] with a non-minimal coupling K=αϕK=\alpha \phi, which guarantees the flatness, is closely examined as a concrete example. Compared to the minimal model with K=0K=0, the non-minimal model is shown to provide better fit to the recent cosmological observation by WMAP9 and Planck2013 with the relatively lower field values during the inflationary epoch. Most interestingly, a small value of tensor-to-scalar ratio requires a large non-minimal coupling in our scenario. The model produces non-observably small non-Gaussianity in most of parameter space while a large non-Gaussianity(O(10)\sim {\mathcal O}(10)) is obtainable only when the inflation takes place in a limited field space along the top of the potential.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5472,
  title  = {Two-field inflation with non-minimal coupling},
  author = {Jinsu Kim and Yoonbai Kim and Seong Chan Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5472},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages, 6 figures, journal published version(v2), meta data updated (v3)

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