Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology, Volume 90, Issue 4 , 21/08/2014
Large tensor-to-scalar ratio from composite inflation
Abstract
The claimed detection of the BICEP2 experiment on the primordial B-mode of cosmic microwave background polarization suggests that cosmic inflation possibly takes place at the energy around the grand unified theory scale given a constraint on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, i.e., r≃0.20. In this report, we revisit single-field (slow-roll) composite inflation and show that, with the proper choice of parameters and sizeable number of e-foldings, a large tensor-to-scalar ratio consistent with the recent BICEP2 results can be significantly produced with regard to the composite paradigms. © 2014 American Physical Society.
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Physics and Astronomy : Nuclear and High Energy Physics