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PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 763, Issue -, Pages 174-178Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.10.036
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- United States Department of Energy [DE-AC02-07CH11359]
- STFC
- Beecroft Trust
- Higgs Centre in Edinburgh
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K00106X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/K00106X/1, ST/N000919/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We discuss models involving two scalar fields coupled to classical gravity that satisfy the general criteria: (i) the theory has no mass input parameters, (ii) classical scale symmetry is broken only through -1/12 zeta phi R-2 couplings where zeta departs from the special conformal value of 1; (iii) the Planck mass is dynamically generated by the vacuum expectations values (VEVs) of the scalars (iv) there is a stage of viable inflation associated with slow roll in the two-scalar potential; (v) the final vacuum has a small to vanishing cosmological constant and an hierarchically small ratio of the VEVs and the ratio of the scalar masses to the Planck scale. This assumes the paradigm of classical scale symmetry as a custodial symmetry of large hierarchies. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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