Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 33, Issue 15 , 29/06/2016

Composite Inflation in the light of 2015 Planck data

Phongpichit Channuie

Abstract

In this work, we examine cosmological constraints on models of composite inflation based on the slow-roll approximation by using the recent Planck measurement. We compare the spectral index of curvature perturbation (and its running) and the tensor-to-scalar ratio predicted by such models with Planck 2015 data. We find that the predictions of technicolor inflation are nicely consistent with the Planck analysis. Moreover, the predictions from the second model, glueball inflation, are in good agreement with the Planck data at 2σC.L. However, the final two models, super glueball inflation and orientifold inflation, favor only the rather large value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio of which the predictions are in tension with the Planck analysis.

Document Type

Article

Source Type

Journal

Keywords

composite inflationnon-minimal couplingparticle physics-cosmology connectionphysics of the early Universe

ASJC Subject Area

Physics and Astronomy : Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

Funding Agency

Thailand Research Fund


Bibliography


& Channuie, P. (2016). Composite Inflation in the light of 2015 Planck data. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(15) doi:10.1088/0264-9381/33/15/157001

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