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TY - JOUR
T1 - Loop inflection-point inflation
AU - Dimopoulos, Konstantinos
AU - Owen, Charlotte
AU - Racioppi, Antonio
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Astroparticle Physics, 103, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.06.002
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - A novel inflection-point inflation model is analysed. The model considers a massless scalar field, whose self-coupling’s running is stabilised by a non-renormalisable operator. The running is controlled by a fermion loop. We find that successful inflation is possible for a natural value of the Yukawa coupling y≃4×10^{−4}. The necessary fine-tuning is only ∼10^{−6}, which improves on the typical tuning of inflection-point inflation models, such as MSSM inflation. The model predicts a spectral index within the 1-σ bound of the latest CMB observations, with a very small negative running, and negligible tensors (r∼10^{−(9−10)}). These results are largely independent of the order of the stabilising non-renormalisable operator.
AB - A novel inflection-point inflation model is analysed. The model considers a massless scalar field, whose self-coupling’s running is stabilised by a non-renormalisable operator. The running is controlled by a fermion loop. We find that successful inflation is possible for a natural value of the Yukawa coupling y≃4×10^{−4}. The necessary fine-tuning is only ∼10^{−6}, which improves on the typical tuning of inflection-point inflation models, such as MSSM inflation. The model predicts a spectral index within the 1-σ bound of the latest CMB observations, with a very small negative running, and negligible tensors (r∼10^{−(9−10)}). These results are largely independent of the order of the stabilising non-renormalisable operator.
KW - cosmic inflation
KW - particle phenomenology
U2 - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.06.002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 103
SP - 16
EP - 20
JO - Astroparticle Physics
JF - Astroparticle Physics
SN - 0927-6505
ER -