Published May 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Confronting hybrid inflation in supergravity with CMB data

  • 1. Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden (Netherlands)
  • 2. NIKHEF, Kruislaan 409, 1098 SJ Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Description

F-term GUT inflation coupled to N = 1 supergravity is confronted with CMB data. Corrections to the string mass-per-unit-length away from the Bogomolny limit are taken into account. We find that a superpotential coupling 10-7/N∼<κ∼<10-2/N, with N the dimension of the Higgs-representation, is still compatible with the data. The parameter space is enlarged in warm inflation, as well as in the curvaton and inhomogeneous reheat scenario. F-strings formed at the end of P-term inflation are also considered. Because these strings satisfy the Bogomolny bound the bounds are stronger: the gauge coupling is constrained to the range 10-7 < g < 10-4

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1126-6708/2005/i=05/a=071/jhep052005071.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of High Energy Physics (ISSN 1029-8479) http://www.iop.org/

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
2005
Journal Issue
05
Journal Page Range
p. 071
ISSN
1126-6708