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The power spectrum of inflationary attractors
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- 1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Theory Group
- 2. Univ. of Groningen (Netherlands). Van Swinderen Inst.
Description
Inflationary attractors predict the spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio to take specific values that are consistent with Planck. An example is the universal attractor for models with a generalised non-minimal coupling, leading to Starobinsky inflation. In this letter we demonstrate that it also predicts a specific relation between the amplitude of the power spectrum and the number of e-folds. The length and height of the inflationary plateau are related via the non-minimal coupling: in a wide variety of examples, the observed power normalisation leads to at least 55 flat e-foldings. Prior to this phase, the inflationary predictions vary and can account for the observational indications of power loss at large angular scales.
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- Imprint Pagination
- 5 p.
- ISSN
- 0418-9833
- Report number
- DESY--14-150
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- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 45102137
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMPLITUDES; ATTRACTORS; CORRECTIONS; HIGGS MODEL; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; INFLATONS; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; POTENTIALS; SCALAR FIELDS; SPECTRA
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY