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We analyze primordial non-Gaussianity in single field inflationary models when the tensor/scalar ratio is large. Our results show that detectable levels of non-Gaussianity $f_{NL} \sim 50$ are still possible in the simplest class of models…

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We revisit a polynomial chaotic inflation model in supergravity which we proposed soon after the Planck first data release. Recently some issues have been raised in Ref.[12], concerning the validity of our polynomial chaotic inflation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

The recent BICEP2 report on the CMB B-mode polarization hints an early Universe energy density at the GUT scale. We add a new 'chaoton' term to our recently proposed hilltop potential to have a large tensor mode fluctuation. The chaoton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Jihn E. Kim

We explore conformal-anomaly driven inflation in $F(R)$ gravity without invoking the scalar-tensor representation. We derive the stress-energy tensor of the quantum anomaly in the flat homogeneous and isotropic universe. We investigate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Kazuharu Bamba , R. Myrzakulov , S. D. Odintsov , L. Sebastiani

In the present work we show that warm chaotic inflation characterized by a simple $\frac{\lambda}{4}\phi^{4}$ self-interaction potential for the inflaton, excluded by current data in standard cold inflation, and by an inflaton decay rate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-26 Grigorios Panotopoulos , Nelson Videla

Motivated by the idea that inflation occurs at the GUT symmetry breaking scale, in this paper we construct a new class of large field inflaton potentials where the inflaton starts with a power law potential; after initial period of relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot , Alexei A. Starobinsky

The simplest interpretation of the Bicep2 result is that the scalar primordial power spectrum is slightly suppressed at large scales. These models result in a large tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. In this work we show that the type of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-28 Jonathan S. Horner , Carlo R. Contaldi

We investigate the scalar perturbation of the inflation model driven by a massive-scalar field in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. We focus on the perturbation at the attractor stage in which the first and the second slow-roll…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Inyong Cho , Naveen K. Singh

The BICEP2 observations, if confirmed, point to a high scale of inflation and large field excursions during the inflationary era. Non-compact string moduli spaces are a suggestive setting for these phenomena. While unlikely to be described…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-10 Michael Dine , Laurel Stephenson-Haskins

Within the framework of a model Universe with variable space dimension, we study chaotic inflation with the potential $m^2\phi^2/2$, and calculate the dynamical solutions of the inflaton field, variable space dimension, scale factor, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Forough Nasseri

The canonical multi-scalar field inflation where the kinetic and potential terms are sum-separable is ruled out by the current observations for the chaotic-type potential $V=\sum_{i} \mu_{i} \phi_{i}^{p}$. This paper explores the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-29 Fereshteh Felegary , Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Tahere Fallahi Serish , Phongpichit Channuie

The BICEP2 collaboration has for the first time observed the B-mode polarization associated with inflationary gravitational waves. Their result has some discomfiting implications for the validity of an effective theory approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-24 Hael Collins , R. Holman , Tereza Vardanyan

Recently, BICEP2 measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization at degree angular scales has indicated the presence of tensor modes with a high tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r=0.2$ when assuming nearly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng , I-Chin Wang

The simplest inflationary model $V=\frac12 m^2\phi^2$ represents the benchmark for future constraints. For a quadratic potential, the quantity $(n_s-1)+r/4+11 (n_s-1)^2/24$ vanishes (up to corrections which are cubic in slow roll) and can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-15 Paolo Creminelli , Diana López Nacir , Marko Simonović , Gabriele Trevisan , Matias Zaldarriaga

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We study chaotic inflation driven by a real, massive, homogeneous minimally coupled scalar field in a flat Robertson-Walker spacetime. The semiclassical limit for gravity is considered, whereas the scalar field is treated quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Finelli , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

We systematically study the renormalizable three-term polynomial inflation in the supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric models. The supersymmetric inflaton potentials can be realized in supergravity theory, and only have two independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-26 Tianjun Li , Zheng Sun , Chi Tian , Lina Wu

We consider the non-supersymmetric models of chaotic (driven by a quadratic potential) and hybrid inflation, taking into account the minimal possible radiative corrections to the inflationary potential. We show that two simple coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 C. Pallis

It is proposed that the recently announced BICEP2 value of tensor-to scalar ratio $r\sim0.2$ can be explained as containing an extra contribution from the recent acceleration of the universe. In fact this contribution, being robust, recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Murli Manohar Verma , Shankar Dayal Pathak

Thanks to the Planck Collaboration, we know the value of the scalar spectral index of primordial fluctuations with unprecedented precision. In addition, the joint analysis of the data from Planck, BICEP2, and KEK has further constrained the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Massimiliano Rinaldi , Guido Cognola , Luciano Vanzo , Sergio Zerbini