Can thermal inflation solve the monopole problem ?

Details Can thermal inflation solve the monopole problem ? Can thermal inflation solve the monopole problem ?

1998-08-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9808260v1

Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 083501

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

17 pages, uses revtex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.59.083501

It is shown that thermal inflation arises naturally in rank greater than five unified theories when non-renormalisable terms are introduced. Thermal inflation is driven by two Higgs fields \Phi_{B-L} and \bar{\Phi}_{B-L} which also break U(1)_{B-L} when acquiring vevs at the end of inflation. The inflationary period provides enough e-foldings to solve the monopole problem for M_{B-L} \geq 10^{12} GeV. We point out that observations suggest that M_{B-L} \simeq 10^{14} GeV.

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