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Axion monodromy inflation with multi-natural modulations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study parameter space in the axion monodromy inflation corrected by dynamically generated terms involving with the axion. The potential has the linear potential with multiple sinusoidal functions, which play a role in generating modulations. We show that this potential leads both to a large tensor-to-scalar ratio rT0.16r_T \sim 0.16 and to a large negative running of spectral index αs(0.020.03)\alpha_s \sim - (0.02 -0.03). To realize these results, a small hierarchy among dynamical scales is required whereas the decay constants in sinusoidal functions remain sub-Planckian in this model. We discuss also reheating process after the inflation in a bottom-up approach.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0775,
  title  = {Axion monodromy inflation with multi-natural modulations},
  author = {Tetsutaro Higaki and Tatsuo Kobayashi and Osamu Seto and Yuya Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0775},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

22 pages, 7 figures, version accepted for publication in JCAP: references and some comments added, and typos corrected

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