Two-field Kaehler moduli inflation in large volume moduli stabilization
- Interdisciplinary Center for Theoretical Study, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 200026 (China)
In this paper we present a two-field inflation model, which is distinctive in having a non-canonical kinetic Lagrangian and comes from the large volume approach to the moduli stabilization in flux compactification of type IIB superstring on a Calabi-Yau orientifold with h{sup (1,2)}>h{sup (1,1)}{>=}4. The Kaehler moduli are classified as the volume modulus, heavy moduli and two light moduli. The axion-dilaton, complex structure moduli and all heavy Kaehler moduli including the volume modulus are frozen by a non-perturbatively corrected flux superpotential and the {alpha}{sup '}-corrected Kaehler potential in the large volume limit. The minimum of the scalar potential at which the heavy moduli are stabilized provides the dominant potential energy for the surviving light Kaehler moduli. We consider a simplified case where the axionic components in the light Kaehler moduli are further stabilized at the potential minimum and only the geometrical components are taken as scalar fields to drive an assisted-like inflation. For a certain range of moduli stabilization parameters and inflation initial conditions, we obtain a nearly flat power spectrum of the curvature perturbation, with n{sub s} Almost-Equal-To 0.96 at Hubble exit, and an inflationary energy scale of 3 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 14} GeV. In our model, there is significant correlation between the curvature and isocurvature perturbations on super-Hubble scales, so at the end of inflation a great deal of the curvature power spectrum originates from this correlation.
- OSTI ID:
- 22156717
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2008, Issue 08; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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