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Radiative inflation and dark energy RIDEs again after BICEP2

Radiative inflation and dark energy RIDEs again after BICEP2
Radiative inflation and dark energy RIDEs again after BICEP2
Following the ground-breaking measurement of the tensor-to-scalar ratio r=0.20+0.07-0.05 by the BICEP2 collaboration, we perform a statistical analysis of a model that combines Radiative Inflation with Dark Energy (RIDE) based on the M2|Φ|2 ln (|Φ|2/Λ2) potential and compare its predictions to those based on the traditional chaotic inflation M2|Φ|2 potential. We find a best-fit value in the RIDE model of r=0.18 as compared to r=0.17 in the chaotic model, with the spectral index being nS=0.96 in both models.
hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
1475-7516
Di Bari, Pasquale
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King, Stephen F.
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Luhn, Christoph
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Merle, Alexander
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Schmidt-May, Angnis
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Di Bari, Pasquale
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King, Stephen F.
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Luhn, Christoph
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Merle, Alexander
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Schmidt-May, Angnis
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Di Bari, Pasquale, King, Stephen F., Luhn, Christoph, Merle, Alexander and Schmidt-May, Angnis (2014) Radiative inflation and dark energy RIDEs again after BICEP2. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014. (doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/040).

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Following the ground-breaking measurement of the tensor-to-scalar ratio r=0.20+0.07-0.05 by the BICEP2 collaboration, we perform a statistical analysis of a model that combines Radiative Inflation with Dark Energy (RIDE) based on the M2|Φ|2 ln (|Φ|2/Λ2) potential and compare its predictions to those based on the traditional chaotic inflation M2|Φ|2 potential. We find a best-fit value in the RIDE model of r=0.18 as compared to r=0.17 in the chaotic model, with the spectral index being nS=0.96 in both models.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 July 2014
Published date: 18 August 2014
Additional Information: 13 pages, 4 figures; v2: Note added, matches JCAP published version
Keywords: hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy, Theory Group

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Local EPrints ID: 408833
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408833
ISSN: 1475-7516
PURE UUID: 0949cc41-d425-4ef7-b020-e893b878a404

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Last modified: 12 Jul 2024 16:41

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Author: Stephen F. King
Author: Christoph Luhn
Author: Alexander Merle
Author: Angnis Schmidt-May

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