Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/025
Keywords
axion inflation; string theory and cosmology
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan [25400252, 26105514, 25800169]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26105514, 25800169, 14J02428] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We study parameter space in the axion monodromy inflation corrected by nautically generated terms involving with the axion. The potential has the linear term 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 r(T) similar to 0.16 and to a large negative running of spectral index alpha(s) similar to -(0.02 - 0.03), ameliorating the tension between the result of the PLANCK and that of the BICEP2. 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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