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A simple supergravity model of inflation constrained with Planck 2018 data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2020-01-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study a model of inflation based on N=1\mathcal{N}=1 supergravity essentially depending on one effective parameter. Under a field transformation we show that this model turns out to be equivalent to a previously studied supergravity model known to be ruled out with the original choice of the parameter. Such parameter measures the slope of the potential at observable scales. Through a Bayesian parameter estimation, it is shown how this model is compatible with recent CMB temperature measurements by {\it Planck 2018} giving rise to a simple, viable, single field model of inflation. The tensor to scalar ratio constraint is found to be r0.002<0.065r_{0.002}<0.065 with negative running. We discuss how observables are invariant under the field transformation which leaves unaltered the slow-roll parameters. As a consequence the use of one presentation of the model or its field-transformed version is purely a matter of convenience.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02019,
  title  = {A simple supergravity model of inflation constrained with Planck 2018 data},
  author = {Gabriel Germán and Juan Carlos Hidalgo and Francisco X. Linares Cedeño and Ariadna Montiel and J. Alberto Vázquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02019},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures. Final version accepted for publication in PRD

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