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In the framework of chaotic inflation we study the case of a massive scalar field using a semiclassical approach. We derive the energy density fluctuations in the infrared sector generated by matter field and gauge-invariant metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 F. Lara , F. Astorga , M. Bellini

We reconstruct scalar field theories to realize inflation compatible with the BICEP2 result as well as the Planck. In particular, we examine the chaotic inflation model, natural (or axion) inflation model, and an inflationary model with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-22 Kazuharu Bamba , Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov

Recent observations from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) indicate a moderate upward shift in the scalar spectral index $n_s$ compared to Planck $2018$, thereby placing tighter constraints on inflationary scenarios. Motivated by these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Li-Yang Chen , Rongrong Zha , Feng-Yi Zhang

We show that inflation can naturally occur at a finite temperature T>H that is sustained by dissipative effects, when the inflaton field corresponds to a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson of a broken gauge symmetry. Similarly to "Little Higgs"…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Mar Bastero-Gil , Arjun Berera , Rudnei O. Ramos , Joao G. Rosa

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has recently reported updated measurements of the scalar spectral index $n_s$, revealing a tension with the predictions of many conventional inflationary models. In this work, we adopt a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Zhu Yi , Xingzhi Wang , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong

We explored a parameterized slow-roll inflationary model within the $\Lambda$CDM framework, utilizing a combination of data from Planck 2018, ACT DR6, DESI DR2, and BICEP/Keck 2018 (P-ACT-LB-BK18). Additionally, we incorporated the SH0ES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhi-Chong Qiu , Ye-Huang Pang , Qing-Guo Huang

We derive the consistency relations for a chaotic inflation model with a non-minimal coupling to gravity. For a quadratic potential in the limit of a small non-minimal coupling parameter $\xi$ and for a quartic potential without assuming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Takeshi Chiba , Kazunori Kohri

The measurement of a large tensor-to-scalar ratio by the BICEP2 experiment, r = 0.20 (-0.05)(+0.07), severely restricts the landscape of viable inflationary models and shifts attention once more towards models featuring large inflaton field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Keisuke Harigaya , Masahiro Ibe , Kai Schmitz , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We show that the regularization of the second order pole in the pole inflation can induce the increase of $n_s$, which may be important after the latest data release of cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation by Atacama Cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-02 Minxi He , Muzi Hong , Kyohei Mukaida

Quintessential inflation unifies inflation and late time acceleration by a single scalar field. Such a scenario, with canonical and non-canonical scalar fields, has been discussed . The scalar field behaves as an inflaton field during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-11 Md. Wali Hossain

We investigate a possibility to restrict the chaotic inflationary scenario with "large" nonminimally coupled inflaton("phi") field considered by Fakir and Unruh by means of the observed CMBR anisotropy. We calculate the contributions of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Eiichiro Komatsu , Toshifumi Futamase

Recent analyses that combine the latest data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) with cosmic microwave background observations by BICEP/Keck and Planck, together with the DESI baryon acoustic-baryonic-oscillation (BAO) measurements,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-07 Wen Yin

We use the PLANCK 2018 and the WMAP data to constraint inflation models driven by a scalar field $\phi$ in the presence of the non-minimal scalar-curvature mixing term $\frac{1}{2}\xi R \phi^2$. We consider four distinct scalar field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Payel Sarkar , Ashmita , Prasanta Kumar Das

We investigate the inflationary consequences of the oscillating dark energy model proposed by Ti\'an [\href{https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.063531}{Phys. Rev. D {\bf 101}, 063531 (2020)}], which aims to solve the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 S. X. Tian , Zong-Hong Zhu

We reassess single-field slow-roll inflation in teleparallel gravity with $f(T)=C\,T^{2\delta+1}$, motivated by recent measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) that indicate a modest upward shift in the scalar spectral index…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Feng-Yi Zhang , Rongrong Zhai , Li-Yang Chen

There are many single field inflationary models that are consistent with the recent Planck 2018 measurements of the spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. Despite good agreement with observational data some of these models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Josh Hoffmann , David Sloan

We present a general polynomial chaotic inflation model in supergravity, for which the predicted spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio can lie within the 1 sigma region allowed by the Planck results. Most importantly, the predicted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We consider single field chaotic inflationary models plus a cosine modulation term, as in axion monodromy models, and augment it by a light scalar field with similar cosine coupling. We show the power spectrum of curvature perturbations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 Ali Akbar Abolhasani , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We discuss the general structure and observational consequences of some of the simplest versions of chaotic inflation in supergravity in relation to the data by Planck 2013 and BICEP2. We show that minimal modifications to the simplest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-06 Renata Kallosh , Andrei Linde , Alexander Westphal

We show how we can implement chaotic inflation in the context of supergravity by conveniently selecting the functional form of a strong enough non-minimal coupling between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar curvature. The procedure can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-12 C. Pallis