Reducing the spectral index in F-term hybrid inflation

Details Reducing the spectral index in F-term hybrid inflation Reducing the spectral index in F-term hybrid inflation

2007-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/0710.3074v2

'High Energy Physics Research Advances'. Edited by T.P. Harrison and R.N. Gonzales. Hauppauge, N.Y., 2008. (ISBN 978-1-60456-3

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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We consider a class of well motivated supersymmetric models of F-term hybrid inflation (FHI) which can be linked to the supersymmetric grand unification. The predicted scalar spectral index n_s cannot be smaller than 0.97 and can exceed unity including corrections from minimal supergravity, if the number of e-foldings corresponding to the pivot scale k_*=0.002/Mpc is around 50. These results are marginally consistent with the fitting of the three-year Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe data by the standard power-law cosmological model with cold dark matter and a cosmological constant. However, n_s can be reduced by applying two mechanisms: (i) The utilization of a quasi-canonical Kahler potential with a convenient choice of a sign and (ii) the restriction of the number of e-foldings that k_* suffered during FHI. In the case (i), we investigate the possible reduction of n_s without generating maxima and minima of the potential on the inflationary path. In the case (ii), the additional e-foldings required for solving the horizon and flatness problems can be generated by a subsequent stage of fast-roll [slow-roll] modular inflation realized by a string modulus which does [does not] acquire effective mass before the onset of modular inflation.

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