http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06455
We study viable small-field Coleman-Weinberg (CW) inflation models with a help of a non-minimal coupling to gravity. The simplest small-field CW inflation model (with a low scale potential minimum) is incompatible with the cosmological constraint on the scalar spectral index. However, there are possibilities to make the model realistic. First, we revisit the CW inflation model supplemented with a linear potential term. We next consider the CW inflation model with a logarithmic non-minimal coupling, and illustrate that the model can open a new viable parameter space which includes that of the model with a liner potential term. We also show parameter spaces where the Hubble scale during the inflation can be smaller than $10^{-6} $ GeV, $10^9$ GeV, and $10^{10}$ GeV for the number of $e$-folds of $40,~50$, and $60$ respectively, with other cosmological constraints being satisfied.
K. Kaneta, O. Seto and R. Takahashi
Wed, 23 Aug 17
11/45
Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures
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