Aligned natural inflation: Monodromies of two axions

作者:Kappl Rolf*; Krippendorf Sven; Nilles Hans Peter
来源:Physics Letters B, 2014, 737: 124-128.
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.08.045

摘要

Natural (axionic) inflation[1] can accommodate sizeable primordial tensor modes but suffers from the necessity of trans-Planckian variations of the inflaton field. This problem can be solved via the mechanism of aligned axions[2], where the aligned axion spirals down in the potential of other axions. We elaborate on the mechanism in view of the recently reported observations of the BICEP2 collaboration[3].

  • 出版日期2014-10-7