Strong dynamics and natural inflation

Shiu, Gary; Staessens, Wieland

doi:10.1103/physrevd.98.083504

Title: Strong dynamics and natural inflation

Journal Article · 01 October 2018 · Physical Review. D.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.98.083504 · OSTI ID:1475097

Shiu, Gary ^[1]; Staessens, Wieland ^[2]

Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Inst. de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, Madrid (Spain)

We continue our investigation of the 4D effective field theory for closed string axions in type II compactifications with D-branes. The inclusion of Stückelberg couplings for the axions requires the presence of chiral fermions at D-brane intersections, whose interactions at strong non-Abelian gauge coupling induce mass terms for the axions and scalar chiral condensate excitations, dubbed infladrons. The setup allows for a realization of naturallike inflation with a closed string axion as inflaton and a flattened scalar potential due to the backreaction of the more massive infladrons. We further point out that this large field inflationary model is not compromised by axionic wormhole corrections.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0017647

OSTI ID:: 1475097

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1612735

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D., Vol. 98, Issue 8; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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