期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/018
关键词
inflation; supersymmetry and cosmology; cosmological perturbation theory; non-gaussianity
资金
- European Union under the Marie Curie Initial Training Network UNILHC [PITN-GA-2009-237920]
- Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics under STFC [ST/J000418/1]
- Lancaster University Physics Department
It is shown that, when the inflaton field modulates the gauge kinetic function of the gauge fields in supergravity realisations of inflation, the dynamic backreaction leads to a new inflationary attractor solution, in which the inflaton's variation suffers additional impedance. As a result, slow-roll inflation can naturally occur along directions of the scalar potential which would be too steep and curved to support it otherwise. This provides a generic solution to the infamous eta-problem of inflation in supergravity. Moreover, it is shown that, in the new inflationary attractor, the spectral index of the generated curvature perturbations is kept mildly red despite eta of order unity. The above findings are applied to a model of hybrid inflation in supergravity with a generic Kahler potential. The spectral index of the generated curvature perturbations is found to be 0.97-0.98, in excellent agreement with observations. The gauge field can play the role of the vector curvaton after inflation but observable statistical anisotropy requires substantial tuning of the gauge coupling.
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