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Observable Gravitational Waves From Kinetically Modified Non-Minimal Inflation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-10-09 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider Supersymmetric (SUSY) and non-SUSY models of chaotic inflation based on the simplest power-law potential with exponents n=2 and 4. We propose a convenient non-minimal coupling to gravity and a non-minimal kinetic term which ensure, mainly for n=4, inflationary observables favored by the BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck results. Inflation can be attained for subplanckian inflaton values with the corresponding effective theories retaining the perturbative unitarity up to the Planck scale.

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@article{arxiv.1510.02306,
  title  = {Observable Gravitational Waves From Kinetically Modified Non-Minimal Inflation},
  author = {C. Pallis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.02306},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Prepared for the Proceedings of the Planck15, 25-29 May 2015, Ioannina, Greece

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