4.6 Article

Polynomial chaotic inflation in supergravity

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/08/038

Keywords

inflation; physics of the early universe; cosmology of theories beyond the SM

Funding

  1. JSPS [24740135]
  2. Inoue Foundation for Science
  3. World Premier International Center Initiative (WPI Program), MEXT, Japan
  4. [21111006]
  5. [23104008]
  6. [24111702]
  7. [22244030]
  8. [21244033]
  9. [22244021]
  10. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21111006, 24740135, 22244030, 24111702] Funding Source: KAKEN

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We present a general polynomial chaotic inflation model in supergravity, for which the predicted spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio can lie within the 1 sigma region allowed by the Planck results. Most importantly, the predicted tensor-to-scalar ratio is large enough to be probed in the on-going and future B-mode experiments. We study the inflaton dynamics and the subsequent reheating process in a couple of specific examples. The non-thermal gravitino production from the inflaton decay can be suppressed in a case with a discrete Z(2) symmetry. We find that the reheating temperature can be naturally as high as O(10(9-10)) GeV, sufficient for baryon asymmetry generation through (non-)thermal leptogenesis.

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