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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/020
Keywords
cosmology of theories beyond the SM; inflation; string theory and cosmology
Funding
- Mexican Academy of Sciences mobility grant (Newton Fund AMC-CONACyT)
- CONACyT [258982 CB2015-01, 286897]
- DAIP-UG
- Instituto Avanzado de Cosmologa A.C.
- DataLab DCI-UG
- CONACyT
- STFC postgraduate scholarship in data intensive science
- STFC [ST/P00055X/1]
- STFC [2022278, ST/P00055X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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It is commonly believed that a successful period of inflation driven by a single or several scalar fields requires a specific hierarchy of masses given by M-inf << H << M-heavy, where M-inf can correspond to several or a single light field and M-heavy corresponds to any heavy field that might be integrated out if it satisfies suitable conditions. This is at the heart of the so called eta-problem in inflation, since large contributions to the masses of the inflatons might spoil the slow-roll conditions required for inflation. We show that, while this is an unavoidable conclusion in single field inflation, in multifield inflation, heavy fields as defined above, may be fully responsible for a successful period of what we call fat slow-roll inflation. Moreover we show that in this scenario, the turning rate of the inflationary trajectory, Omega/H, is larger than one. Thus, the eta-problem is evaded with large turns in fat inflation. Depending on the perturbations' mass spectra, cosmological predictions will differ either slightly or largely with respect to those of the single field case. We illustrate this scenario in a concrete example in Type IIB string flux compactifications, where a probe D5-brane moving along the angular and radial directions in a warped throat drives fat D5-brane natural inflation. An instantaneous superplanckian decay constant can be defined, consistent with our low energy approximations. We compute the cosmological observables, which are consistent with Planck data, ameliorating the tension of single field natural inflation with observations. We also discuss fat inflation in the context of recently proposed swampland de Sitter conjectures.
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