Constraints on braneworld inflation from CMB anisotropies

Details Constraints on braneworld inflation from CMB anisotropies Constraints on braneworld inflation from CMB anisotropies

2003-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312162v2

JCAP 0403 (2004) 001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2004/03/001

We obtain observational constraints on Randall--Sundrum type II braneworld inflation using a compilation of data including WMAP, the 2dF and latest SDSS galaxy redshift surveys. We place constraints on three classes of inflation models (large-field, small-field and hybrid models) in the high-energy regime, which exhibit different behaviour compared to the low-energy case. The quartic potential is outside the $2\sigma$ observational contour bound for a number of $e$-folds less than 60, and steep inflation driven by an exponential potential is excluded because of its high tensor-to-scalar ratio. It is more difficult to strongly constrain small-field and hybrid models due to additional freedoms associated with the potentials, but we obtain upper bounds for the energy scale of inflation and the model parameters in certain cases. We also discuss possible ways to break the degeneracy of consistency relations and inflationary observables.

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