Higgsed Chromo-Natural Inflation

Adshead, Peter; Martinec, Emil; Sfakianakis, Evangelos I.; Wyman, Mark

doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2016)137

Title: Higgsed Chromo-Natural Inflation

Journal Article · Tue Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)137· OSTI ID:1368034

Adshead, Peter ^[1]; Martinec, Emil ^[2]; Sfakianakis, Evangelos I. ^[1]; Wyman, Mark ^[3]

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
PDT Partners, New York, NY (United States)

We demonstrate that Chromo-Natural Inflation can be made consistent with observational data if the SU(2) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. Working in the Stueckelberg limit, we show that isocurvature is negligible, and the resulting adiabatic fluctuations can match current observational constraints. Observable levels of chirally-polarized gravitational radiation (r ~ 10^-3) can be produced while the evolution of all background fields is sub-Planckian. The gravitational wave spectrum is ampli ed via linear mixing with the gauge field fluctuations, and its amplitude is not simply set by the Hubble rate during in inflation. This allows observable gravitational waves to be produced for an in inflationary energy scale below the GUT scale. The tilt of the resulting gravitational wave spectrum can be either blue or red.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG02-90ER40560; SC0009924; SC0015655

OSTI ID:: 1368034

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 12; ISSN 1029-8479

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