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We discuss the possibility of explaining the recent NANOGrav results by inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs) with a blue-tilted primordial spectrum. Although such IGWs can account for the NANOGrav signal without contradicting the upper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Tomo Takahashi , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We investigate the dependence of the gravitational wave spectrum from quintessential inflation on the reheating process. We consider two extreme reheating processes. One is the gravitational reheating by particle creation in the expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-09 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Takeshi Chiba , Misao Sasaki

We consider a class of models in which minimal gauged F-term hybrid inflation is coupled renormalisably to the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), with no extra ingredients; we call this class the "minimal hybrid inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Hindmarsh , D. R. Timothy Jones

We propose supersymmetric Majoron inflation in which the Majoron field $\Phi$ responsible for generating right-handed neutrino masses may also be suitable for giving low scale "hilltop" inflation, with a discrete lepton number $Z_N$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Stephen F. King , Patrick Otto Ludl

The model of RH neutrino fields coupled to the MSSM is shown to yield a large parameter regime of warm inflation. In the strong dissipative regime, it is shown that inflation, driven by a single sneutrino field, occurs with {\it all field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera

By using a string-inspired modular invariant supergravity, which was proved well to explain WMAP observations appropriately, a mechanism of supersymmetry breaking (SSB) and Gravitino Production just after the end of inflation are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-17 Kenji Takagi , Yuta Koshimizu , Toyokazu Fukuoka , Hikoya Kasari , Mitsuo J. Hayashi

We study the constraint on the inflationary energy scale from the recently proposed Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC). We find a universal upper bound on the inflationary Hubble expansion rate $H_\text{inf}$ which is solely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Shuntaro Mizuno , Shinji Mukohyama , Shi Pi , Yun-Long Zhang

We study models of hybrid inflation in the framework of supergravity with superconformal matter. F-term hybrid inflation is not viable since the inflaton acquires a large tachyonic mass. On the contrary, D-term hybrid inflation can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 W. Buchmüller , V. Domcke , K. Schmitz

We investigate an inflation model with the inflaton being identified with a Higgs boson responsible for the breaking of U(1)B-L symmetry. We show that supersymmetry must remain a good symmetry at scales one order of magnitude below the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-13 Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi

We propose a multi-natural inflation model in which the single-field inflaton potential consists of two or more sinusoidal potentials that are comparable in size, but have different periodicity with a possible non-zero relative phase. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Michael Czerny , Fuminobu Takahashi

We study models in which reheating happens only through non-perturbative processes. The energy transferred can be exponentially suppressed unless the inflaton is coupled to a particle with a parametrically small mass. Additionally, in some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-06 Edward Hardy

A new modified string-inspired modular invariant supergravity model is proposed and is applied to realize the slow roll inflation in Einstein frame, so that the model explains WMAP observations very well. Gravitino mass and their production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-23 Yuta Koshimizu , Toyokazu Fukuoka , Kenji Takagi , Hikoya Kasari , Mitsuo J. Hayashi

Recently in hep-ph/0605035 and hep-ph/0608138, we have shown that primordial inflation can be embedded within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, while providing the right amplitude for the density perturbations and a tilted spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Anupam Mazumdar

We present three features which can be used to distinguish the R^2-inflation Higgs-inflation from with ongoing, upcoming and planned experiments, assuming no new physics (apart form sterile neutrinos) up to inflationary scale. (i) Slightly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-30 Fedor Bezrukov , Dmitry Gorbunov

In conventional scenario of thermal inflation, the requirement that the reheating temperature must be larger than the temperature of the nucleosynthesis puts a lower bound on the mass of the inflaton field. At the same time, the mass of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomohiro Matsuda

We consider inflation and supersymmetry breaking in the context of a minimal model of supersymmetry in which the only "low" energy remnant of supersymmetry is the gravitino with a mass of order an EeV. In this theory, the supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-03 Emilian Dudas , Tony Gherghetta , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive

We study perturbative reheating at the end of fibre inflation where the inflaton is a closed string modulus with a Starobinsky-like potential. We first derive the spectral index $n_s$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ as a function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-26 Michele Cicoli , Gabriel A. Piovano

The shortcomings of the Standard Big Bang Cosmological Model as well as their resolution in the context of inflationary cosmology are discussed. The inflationary scenario and the subsequent oscillation and decay of the inflaton field are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Lazarides

The big bang model and the history of the early universe according to the grand unified theories are introduced. The shortcomings of big bang are discussed together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology. Inflation, the subsequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Lazarides

In this paper we present a model for accelerated expansion of the universe, both during inflation and the present stage of the expansion, from four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity. We evaluate the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r\approx…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 Ricardo C. G. Landim