Published January 2018
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Journal article
Pure natural inflation
- 1. Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583 (Japan)
- 2. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
- 3. Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
Description
We point out that a simple inflationary model in which the axionic inflaton couples to a pure Yang–Mills theory may give the scalar spectral index () and tensor-to-scalar ratio (r) in complete agreement with the current observational data.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.052Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.052;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1706.08522v2;
- PII
- S0370269317309449;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 776
- Journal Page Range
- p. 227-230
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 51013091
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; INFLATONS; SIMULATION; YANG-MILLS THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; POSTULATED PARTICLES
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.