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We study the effects of primordial magnetic fields on the inflationary potential in the context of a warm inflation scenario. The model, based on global supersymmetry with a new-inflation-type potential and a coupling between the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-08 Gabriella Piccinelli , Angel Sanchez , Alejandro Ayala , Ana Julia Mizher

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

We consider the prospects of probing features in the primordial power spectrum with future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarization measurements. In the scope of the inflationary scenario, such features in the spectrum can be produced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Daniela Paoletti , Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot , Alexei A. Starobinsky

A novel inflection-point inflation model is analysed. The model considers a massless scalar field, whose self-coupling's running is stabilised by a non-renormalisable operator. The running is controlled by a fermion loop. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-05 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Charlotte Owen , Antonio Racioppi

Inflation creates perturbations for the large scale structures in the universe, but it also dilutes everything. Therefore it is pertinent that the end of inflation must explain how to excite the Standard Model {\it dof} along with the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-22 Lingfei Wang , Ernestas Pukartas , Anupam Mazumdar

Recently we have studied in great detail a model of Hybrid Natural Inflation (HNI) by constructing two simple effective field theories. These two versions of the model allow inflationary energy scales as small as the electroweak scale in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Gabriel German , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Roberto A. Sussman , Jose Tapia

Supernatural inflation is an attractive model based just on a flat direction with soft SUSY breaking mass terms in the framework of supersymmetry. The beauty of the model is inferred from its name that the model needs no fine-tuning.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Chia-Min Lin , Kingman Cheung

In addition to density perturbations, inflationary models of the early universe generally predict a stochastic background of gravitational waves or tensor fluctuations. By making use of the inflationary flow approach for single field models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brett C. Friedman , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

The combined Planck, BICEP/Keck Array and BAO measurements of the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio from the cosmic microwave background observations severely constrain or completely rule out several models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Diganta Das , Shreyas Revankar

In this work, we show the effect of the non-minimal coupling $\xi \phi^2 R$ on the inflationary parameters by considering the single-field inflation and present the inflationary predictions of the appealing potential for the particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-03 Nilay Bostan

We introduce a simple string model of inflation, in which the inflaton field can take trans-Planckian values while driving a period of slow-roll inflation. This leads naturally to a realisation of large field inflation, inasmuch as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Cicoli , C. P. Burgess , F. Quevedo

In the early Universe matter can be described as a conformal invariant ultra-relativistic perfect fluid, which does not contribute, on classical level, to the evolution of the isotropic and homogeneous metric. If we suppose that there is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Fabris , A. M. Pelinson , I. L. Shapiro

We constrain models of single field inflation with the pre-\textit{Planck} CMB data. The data used here is the 9-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (\textit{WMAP}) data, South Pole Telescope (SPT) data and Atacama Cosmology Telescope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma

Inflation, as currently understood, requires the presence of fields with very flat potentials. Supersymmetric models in which supersymmetry breaking is communicated by supergravity naturally yield such fields, but the scales are typically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Dine , Antonio Riotto

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

We construct the supersymmetric economical 3-3-1 model which contains inflationary scenario and avoids the monopole puzzle. Based on the spontaneous symmetry breaking pattern (with three steps), the $F$-term inflation is derived. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-04 Do T. Huong , Hoang N. Long

We propose the pure natural quintessential inflation model which is motivated by Witten's conjecture, where the axion couples to pure Yang-Mills $SU(N)$ gauge field at large N limit. This modifies the standard cosine potential which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Selvaganapathy J

The three-year data from WMAP are in stunning agreement with the simplest possible quadratic potential for chaotic inflation, as well as with new or symmetry-breaking inflation. We investigate the possibilities for incorporating these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Ellis , Z. Lalak , S. Pokorski , K. Turzynski

A possible origin of the anomalous dip and bump in the primordial power spectrum, which are reconstructed from WMAP data corresponding to the multipole $\ell=100\sim 140$ by using the inversion method, is investigated as a consequence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Kohei Kumazaki , Shuichiro Yokoyama , Naoshi Sugiyama

We show that the recently proposed multi-natural inflation can be realized within the framework of 4D ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity. The inflaton potential mainly consists of two sinusoidal potentials that are comparable in size, but have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-09 Michael Czerny , Tetsutaro Higaki , Fuminobu Takahashi