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 $M^2 |\Phi|^2 \ln \left(|\Phi|^2/\Lambda^2 \right)$ potential and compare its predictions to those based on the traditional chaotic inflation $M^2|\Phi|^2$ 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 $n_S=0.96$ in both models.
hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
Bari, Pasquale Di
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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
Bari, Pasquale Di
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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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Bari, Pasquale Di, 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.
(doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2014/08/040).
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 $M^2 |\Phi|^2 \ln \left(|\Phi|^2/\Lambda^2 \right)$ potential and compare its predictions to those based on the traditional chaotic inflation $M^2|\Phi|^2$ 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 $n_S=0.96$ in both models.
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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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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408833
ISSN: 1475-7516
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