Monodromy inflation in SUSY QCD

Dine, Michael; Draper, Patrick; Monteux, Angelo

doi:10.1007/jhep07(2014)146

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“…The motion of 7-branes is on the same footing in some sense, as 7-brane position moduli arise from complex structure moduli in F-theory. 10 9 Our discussion here is not exhaustive: other examples include configurations with moving branes [24,32,33,35], as well as some of the scenarios in [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]; some of these may also be understood via dualities.…”

Section: Dual Axionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Phenomenologically, the discrete examples of p obtained in this and other works, and a more systematic generalization if that can be accomplished, relate directly to various cosmological observables. It is of great interest to understand the spectrum of UV-complete values of r (a detectable amplitude of tensor fluctuations being the main model-independent signature of monodromy inflation) as well as n s (which depends on p and also on the number of fields involved [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]). In addition, one would like to map out the more detailed, but model-dependent signatures from the residual oscillations in the potential (1.1) [25,26] generated by the sectors of the physics that respect the underlying periodicity φ → φ + 2πf .…”

Section: Jhep09(2014)123mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The powers of monodromy

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Silverstein

Westphal

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Flux couplings to string theory axions yield super-Planckian field ranges along which the axion potential energy grows. At the same time, other aspects of the physics remain essentially unchanged along these large displacements, respecting a discrete shift symmetry with a sub-Planckian period. After a general overview of this monodromy effect and its application to large-field inflation, we present new classes of specific models of monodromy inflation, with monomial potentials µ 4−p φ p . A key simplification in these models is that the inflaton potential energy plays a leading role in moduli stabilization during inflation. The resulting inflaton-dependent shifts in the moduli fields lead to an effective flattening of the inflaton potential, i.e. a reduction of the exponent from a fiducial value p 0 to p < p 0 . We focus on examples arising in compactifications of type IIB string theory on products of tori or Riemann surfaces, where the inflaton descends from the NS-NS two-form potential B 2 , with monodromy induced by a coupling to the R-R field strength F 1 . In this setting we exhibit models with p = 2/3, 4/3, 2, and 3, corresponding to predictions for the tensor-to-scalar ratio of r ≈ 0.04, 0.09, 0.13, and 0.2, respectively. Using mirror symmetry, we also motivate a second class of examples with the role of the axions played by the real parts of complex structure moduli, with fluxes inducing monodromy.

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Section: Dual Axionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Jhep09(2014)123mentioning

confidence: 99%

The powers of monodromy

McAllister

Silverstein

Westphal

et al. 2014

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…[15][16][17]). The monodromic behaviors of the pseudo-NGB also realize models with an effective decay constant larger than the Planck scale, which is originally proposed in models based on string theory [18,19] and are generalized in field theoretic approaches [20][21][22][23][24]. It is also pointed out that natural inflation potential generated by an anomaly in a large N c gauge dynamics has an effective decay constant much larger than the scale of the spontaneous symmetry breaking [25].…”

Section: Jhep11(2014)147mentioning

confidence: 96%

Phase locked inflation. Effectively trans-Planckian natural inflation

Harigaya

Ibe

2014

J. High Energ. Phys.

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A model of natural inflation with an effectively trans-Planckian decay constant can be easily achieved by the "phase locking" mechanism while keeping field values in the effective field theory within the Planck scale. We give detailed description of "phase locked" inflation based on this mechanism. We also construct supersymmetric natural inflation based on this mechanism and show that the model is consistent with low scale supersymmetry. We also investigate couplings of the inflaton with the minimal supersymmetric standard model to achieve an appropriate reheating process. Interestingly, in a certain class of models, we find that the inflation scale is related to the mass of the right-handed neutrino in a consistent way with the seesaw mechanism.

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“…(6), this type of barrier can only exist if E < 0 and α ∈ (0.5, 0.75). 3 To illustrate this point, we present in Fig. 1 the potential in φ given in Eq.…”

Section: Reducing To a Single-field Potentialmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The decay of a false vacuum is a complex problem with numerous applications in cosmology [1][2][3][4][5][6] and is particularly important in the study of baryogenesis [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] (although there are mechanisms for producing the baryon asymmetry that do not require calculating the decay of the false vacuum [27][28][29][30][31][32][33]). Calculating tunneling rates is also an important problem in the study of vacuum stability [34][35][36][37][38][39][40].…”

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Semi-analytic techniques for calculating bubble wall profiles

2016

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We present semi-analytic techniques for finding bubble wall profiles during first order phase transitions with multiple scalar fields. Our method involves reducing the problem to an equation with a single field, finding an approximate analytic solution and perturbing around it. The perturbations can be written in a semi-analytic form. We assert that our technique lacks convergence problems and demonstrate the speed of convergence on an example potential.

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Monodromy inflation in SUSY QCD

Cited by 27 publications

References 46 publications

The powers of monodromy

The powers of monodromy

Phase locked inflation. Effectively trans-Planckian natural inflation

Semi-analytic techniques for calculating bubble wall profiles

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