Semi-shifted hybrid inflation with B-L cosmic strings

Details Semi-shifted hybrid inflation with B-L cosmic strings Semi-shifted hybrid inflation with B-L cosmic strings

2008-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/0804.3661v2

Phys.Rev.D78:043518,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

11 pages including 3 figures, uses Revtex, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.043518

We discuss a new inflationary scenario which is realized within the extended supersymmetric Pati-Salam model which yields an acceptable b-quark mass for universal boundary conditions and mu>0 by modestly violating Yukawa unification and leads to new shifted, new smooth, or standard-smooth hybrid inflation. Inflation takes place along a "semi-shifted" classically flat direction on which the U(1)_{B-L} gauge group remains unbroken. After the end of inflation, U(1)_{B-L} breaks spontaneously and a network of local cosmic strings, which contribute a small amount to the curvature perturbation, is produced. We show that, in minimal supergravity, this "semi-shifted" inflationary scenario is compatible with a recent fit to data which uses field-theory simulations of a local string network. Taking into account the requirement of gauge unification, we find that, for spectral index n_s=1, the predicted fractional contribution f_{10} of strings to the temperature power spectrum at multipole l=10 is about 0.039. Also, for f_{10}=0.10, which is the best-fit value, we obtain that n_s is about 1.0254. Spectral indices lower than about 0.98 are excluded and blue spectra are slightly favored. Magnetic monopoles are not formed at the end of semi-shifted hybrid inflation.

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