Remarks on Realizing Inflation in String and Particle Physics Models
Abstract
The recent measurements of cosmological parameters by the Planck collaboration favors inflationary models with a redshifted spectrum and a very low tensor-to-scalar ratio. Two well-studied scenarios in the particle physics/string theory literature -- inflection point and Starobinsky inflation -- are in good agreement with these data. In these proceedings, we report on general studies of these two scenarios. We discuss similarities in their structure which, we argue, arise from a common mechanism: degenerate critical point of the potential. In particular, we emphasize their ability to support a possible primordial explanation for the anomalous suppression of the power spectrum at large scales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.7937,
title = {Remarks on Realizing Inflation in String and Particle Physics Models},
author = {Sean Downes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.7937},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of The 10th International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA2013)