Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2014)184
Keywords
Flux compactifications; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; D-branes
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- MINECO [FPA2012-32828]
- ERC [ERC-2012-ADG-20120216-320421]
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa Programme [SEV-2012-0249]
- Ramon y Cajal programme [RYC-2009-05096]
- REA grant from the People Programme of FP7 (Marie Curie Action) [PCIG10-GA-2011-304023]
- DOE [DE-FG-02-95ER40896]
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The continuous shift symmetry of axions is at the heart of several realizations of inflationary models. In particular, axion monodromy inflation aims at achieving super-Planckian field ranges for the inflaton in the context of string theory. Despite the elegant underlying principle, explicit models constructed hitherto are exceedingly complicated. We propose a new and better axion monodromy inflationary scenario, where the inflaton potential arises from an F-term. We present several scenarios, where the axion arises from the Kaluza-Klein compactification of higher dimensional gauge fields (or p-form potentials) in the presence of fluxes and/or torsion homology. The monodromy corresponds to a change in the background fluxes, and its F-term nature manifests in the existence of domain walls interpolating among flux configurations. Our scenario leads to diverse inflaton potentials, including linear large field behaviour, chaotic inflation, as well as potentials with even higher powers. They provide an elegant set of constructions with properties in the ballpark of the recent BICEP2 observational data on primordial gravitational waves.
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