Moduli assisted two-field inflation from no-scale supergravity [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03121


We present a two-field inflationary scenario where inflaton field is accompanied by a dilaton field and has a non-canonical kinetic term due to the presence of the dilaton field. We show that novelty of such an inflationary scenario is that the quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials, which in standard single-field inflation models are ruled out by the present Planck data, yield scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in accordance with the present data. Such a model yield tensor-to-scalar ratio of the order of $10^{-2}$ which can be probed by future $B-$mode experiments like Keck/BICEP3, CMBPol, COrE, LiteBIRD and thus can be put to test in future. In a multifield scenario the curvature perturbations are not constant on superhorizon scales and isocurvature perturbations are expected to be generated. We show that in the considered two-field scenario, upto slow-roll approximation, the isocurvature perturbations vanish. To motivate such a two-field model, we show that it can be derived from no-scale supergravity with appropriate choice of superpotential and string motivated K\”ahler potential.

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G. Chakravarty, S. Das, G. Lambiase, et. al.
Wed, 11 Nov 15
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Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures