Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-04-27
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 063510
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages LaTeX, 2 eps figures, version to be published
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.063510
Supergravity corrections due to the energy density of a right-handed sneutrino can generate a negative mass squared for the inflaton, flattening the inflaton potential and reducing the spectral index and inflaton energy density. For the case of D-term hybrid inflation, we show that the spectral index can be lowered from the conventional value n = 0.98 to a value within the range allowed by the latest WMAP analysis, n = 0.951^{+0.015}_{-0.019}. The modified energy density is consistent with non-observation of cosmic strings in the CMB if n < 0.946. The WMAP lower bound on the spectral index implies that the D-term cosmic string contribution may be very close present CMB limits, contributing at least 5% to the CMB multipoles.
Lin Chia-Min
McDonald Janece
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