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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

We investigate the consistency of radiatively corrected inflationary models with both the latest observational data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) combined with Planck 2018 and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Mohammad Ali S Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Behnam Pourhassan , Izzet Sakalli , Jafar Sadeghi

In a variety of inflation models the motion of the inflaton may trigger the production of some non-inflaton particles during inflation, for example via parametric resonance or a phase transition. Particle production during inflation leads…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Neil Barnaby , Zhiqi Huang

We analyze the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) constraints on the scalar spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ from Planck 2018, BICEP/Keck 2018, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6), and the South…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 John Ellis , Marcos A. G. Garcia , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

Here, the quartic inflationary potential $V(\phi)=\frac{\lambda}{4}\phi^4$ within a non-canonical framework characterized by a power-law Lagrangian is investigated. We demonstrate that the predictions of this model align with the Planck…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 Iraj Safaei , Kayoomars Karami

In this paper we propose two simple minimal Higgs inflation scenarios through a simple modification of the Higgs potential, as opposed to the usual non-minimal Higgs-gravity coupling prescription. The modification is done in such a way that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-26 Debaprasad Maity

Here, a single field inflationary model driven by a mutated hilltop potential, a subclass of the hilltop models of inflation, is investigated. To constrain the parameter space, we employ the latest $r-n_{\rm s}$ constraints from Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Iraj Safaei , Soma Heydari , Milad Solbi , Kayoomars Karami

In this work, we revisit the Witten-O'Raifeartaigh model of inflation, in which the potential takes a $\operatorname{log}^2(\phi/M)$ form, when the scalar field is non-minimally coupled to gravity. We investigate the impact of the coupling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 F. B. M. dos Santos , R. Silva

We first derive the primordial power spectra, spectral indices and runnings of both scalar and tensor perturbations of a flat inflationary universe to the second-order approximations of the slow-roll parameters, in the framework of loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-25 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng , Qiang Wu

We show that the simplest generalization of the chaotic inflation model $\tfrac12 {m^{2}\phi^{2}}$ with nonminimal coupling to gravity $(1+\phi) R$ provides a good match to the results of the latest data release of the Atacama Cosmology…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Diederik Roest

We investigate the observational constraints on $\alpha$-attractor inflationary models and their post-inflationary reheating dynamics in light of the latest CMB data from ACT DR6 combined with Planck18, BICEP/$Keck$ 2018, and DESI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Md Riajul Haque , Sourav Pal , Debarun Paul

We investigate the inflation for the quartic hilltop model via a certain type of modified gravity. Precisely, we analyze the $F(\phi) T$ term in the Einstein's gravity to examine the quartic hilltop inflation model. $T$ is the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Feyzollah Younesizadeh , Davoud Kamani

The quantum gravitational scale of inflation is calculated by finding a sharp probability peak in the distribution function of chaotic inflationary cosmologies driven by a scalar field with large negative constant $\xi$ of nonminimal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

A simple realization of inflation consists of adding the following operators to the Einstein-Hilbert action: (partial phi)^2, lambda phi^4, and xi phi^2 R, with xi a large non-minimal coupling. Recently there has been much discussion as to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-01 Mark P. Hertzberg

We investigate a class of slow roll inflationary models in the light of the recent Cosmic Microwave Background constraints from Planck 2018, ACT DR6, DESI DR1, and BICEP/\textit{Keck} 2018. The combined dataset favors a higher value of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Suvashis Maity

This paper revisits the Inflationary scenario within the framework of scalar field models possessing a non-canonical kinetic term. We obtain closed form solutions for all essential quantities associated with chaotic inflation including slow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Sanil Unnikrishnan , Varun Sahni , Aleksey Toporensky

We consider an inflationary model motivated by quantum effects of gravitational and matter fields near the Planck scale. Our Lagrangian is a re-summed version of the effective Lagrangian recently obtained by Demmel, Saueressig and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Lei-Hua Liu , Tomislav Prokopec , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Theories where the Planck scale is dynamically generated from dimensionless interactions provide predictive inflationary potentials and super-Planckian field variations. We first study the minimal single-field realisation in the low-energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 Kristjan Kannike , Gert Hütsi , Liberato Pizza , Antonio Racioppi , Martti Raidal , Alberto Salvio , Alessandro Strumia

We present a minimal axion inflation model which can generate a large tensor-to-scalar ratio while remaining sub-Planckian. The modulus of a complex scalar field $\Phi$ with a $\lambda |\Phi|^4$ potential couples directly to the gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 John McDonald

We compute the corrections to the primordial power spectrum that should arise in realistic inflationary scenarios if there exists a generic covariant ultraviolet (UV) cutoff, as commonly motivated by considerations of quantum gravity. The…

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