Two-field analysis of no-scale supergravity inflation
Journal Article
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· Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- King's College London, London (United Kingdom). Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group; European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland). Theory Div.; None
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States). William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Inst.
- Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Inst. for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy; Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), Woodlands, TX (United States). Astroparticle Physics Group; Academy of Athens, Athens (Greece), Div. of Natural Sciences
Since the building-blocks of supersymmetric models include chiral superfields containing pairs of effective scalar fields, a two-field approach is particularly appropriate for models of inflation based on supergravity. In this paper, we generalize the two-field analysis of the inflationary power spectrum to supergravity models with arbitrary Kähler potential. We show how two-field effects in the context of no-scale supergravity can alter the model predictions for the scalar spectral index ns and the tensor-to-scalar ratio r, yielding results that interpolate between the Planck-friendly Starobinsky model and BICEP2-friendly predictions. In particular, we show that two-field effects in a chaotic no-scale inflation model with a quadratic potential are capable of reducing r to very small values << 0.1. Here, we also calculate the non-Gaussianity measure fNL, finding that is well below the current experimental sensitivity.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG03-95ER40917; SC0011842
- OSTI ID:
- 1454606
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 22382037
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 01 Vol. 2015; ISSN 1475-7516
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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