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
  
  
  
    
      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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      18 August 2014
    
    
  
  
    
      Di Bari, Pasquale
      
        3fe21e59-0eff-41bc-8faa-fdd817146418
      
     
  
    
      King, Stephen F.
      
        f8c616b7-0336-4046-a943-700af83a1538
      
     
  
    
      Luhn, Christoph
      
        59a723a0-9d34-48e8-9b97-9d608ad196c8
      
     
  
    
      Merle, Alexander
      
        18b2b79d-5edb-4087-bf76-86050237604b
      
     
  
    
      Schmidt-May, Angnis
      
        3e553a0d-255c-4090-abab-eb40c2beac17
      
     
  
       
    
 
  
    
      
  
  
  
  
  
  
    Di Bari, Pasquale, King, Stephen F., Luhn, Christoph, Merle, Alexander and Schmidt-May, Angnis
  
  
  
  
   
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    Radiative inflation and dark energy RIDEs again after BICEP2.
  
  
  
  
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014.
  
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          Abstract
          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
 
    
  
  
    
  
    
     
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        13 pages, 4 figures; v2: Note added, matches JCAP published version
      
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
     
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        hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
      
    
  
    
     
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        Local EPrints ID: 408833
        URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408833
        
          
        
        
        
          ISSN: 1475-7516
        
        
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              Christoph Luhn
            
          
        
      
          
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                Alexander Merle
              
              
            
            
          
        
      
          
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              Angnis Schmidt-May
            
          
        
      
      
      
    
  
   
  
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