367 research outputs found
On the waterfall behavior in hybrid inflation
We revisit the hybrid inflation model focusing on the dynamics of the
waterfall field in an analytical way. It is shown that inflation may last long
enough during the waterfall regime for some parameter regions, confirming the
claim of Clesse. In this case the scalar spectral index becomes red, and can
fall into the best fit range of the WMAP observation.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figure
Can decaying particle explain cosmic infrared background excess?
Recently the CIBER experiment measured the diffuse cosmic infrared background
(CIB) flux and claimed an excess compared with integrated emission from
galaxies. We show that the CIB spectrum can be fitted by the additional photons
produced by the decay of a new particle. However, it also contributes too much
to the anisotropy of the CIB, which is in contradiction with the anisotropy
measurements by the CIBER and Hubble Space Telescope.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figure
Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Particle Origin
We propose that there may be a substantial stochastic gravitational wave
background from particle origin, mainly from the gravitational three-body decay
of the inflaton. The emitted gravitons could constitute a sizable contribution
to dark radiation if the mass of inflaton is close to the Planck scale, which
can be probed by future CMB experiments that have a sensitivity on the
deviation of the effective number of neutrinos in the standard cosmology,
. We have also illustrated the
spectrum of the radiated gravitational waves, in comparison to the current and
future experiments, and found that gravitational waves from particle origin
could be the dominant contribution to the energy density at high-frequency
domain, but beyond the sensitivity regions of various experiments.Comment: 1+13 pages, 6 figure
Late-time Affleck-Dine baryogenesis after thermal inflation
Thermal inflation can solve serious cosmological problems such as
overproduction of gravitinos and moduli. However, it also dilutes the
preexisting baryon asymmetry. We investigate a possibility that Affleck-Dine
mechanism works after thermal inflation and generate the baryon number at an
acceptable level using lattice calculation. We find that a proper amount of
baryon number can be generated for appropriate model parameters.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, reference adde
Higgs Chaotic Inflation and the Primordial B-mode Polarization Discovered by BICEP2
We show that the standard model Higgs field can realize the quadratic chaotic
inflation, if the kinetic term is significantly modified at large field values.
This is a simple realization of the so-called running kinetic inflation. The
point is that the Higgs field respects an approximate shift symmetry at high
energy scale. The tensor-to-scalar ratio is predicted to be , which nicely explains the primordial B-mode polarization,
, recently discovered by the BICEP2 experiment. In
particular, allowing small modulations induced by the shift symmetry breaking,
the negative running spectral index can also be induced. The reheating
temperature is expected to be so high that successful thermal leptogenesis is
possible. The suppressed quartic coupling of the Higgs field at high energy
scales may be related to the Higgs chaotic inflation.Comment: 12 pages. v2: discussion improved, references added. v3: matches with
published versio
PeV-scale Supersymmetry from New Inflation
We show that heavy supersymmetric particles around O(100) TeV to O(1) PeV
naturally appear in new inflation in which the Higgs boson responsible for the
breaking of U(1)B-L plays the role of inflaton. Most important, the
supersymmetric breaking scale is bounded above by the inflationary dynamics, in
order to suppress the Coleman-Weinberg potential which would otherwise spoil
the slow-roll inflation. Our scenario has rich phenomenological and
cosmological implications: the Higgs boson mass at around 125 GeV can be easily
explained, non-thermal leptogenesis works automatically, the gravitino
production from inflaton decay is suppressed, the dark matter is either the
lightest neutralino or the QCD axion, and the upper bound on the inflation
scale for the modulus stabilization can be marginally satisfied.Comment: 34 pages, 8 figures. v2: references adde
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