Abstract
The magnitude of B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background as measured by BICEP2 favours models of chaotic inflation with a quadratic m 2 φ2/2 potential, whereas data from the Planck satellite favour a small value of the tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio r that is highly consistent with the Starobinsky R +R2 model. Reality may lie somewhere between these two scenarios. In this paper we propose a minimal two-field no-scale supergravity model that interpolates between quadratic and Starobinsky-like inflation as limiting cases, while retaining the successful prediction ns ≃ 0.96.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 044 |
Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Volume | 2014 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2014 |
Keywords
- gravitational waves and CMBR polarization
- inflation
- supersymmetry and cosmology