Does Planck really rule out monomial inflation?

Abstract

We consider the modifications of monomial chaotic inflation models due to radiative corrections induced by inflaton couplings to bosons and/or fermions necessary for reheating. To the lowest order, ignoring gravitational corrections and treating the inflaton as a classical background field, they are of the Coleman-Weinberg type and parametrized by the renormalization scale $\mu$. In cosmology, there are not enough measurements to fix $\mu$ so that we end up with a family of models, each having a slightly different slope of the potential. We demonstrate by explicit calculation that within the family of chaotic ${\varphi }^2$ models, some may be ruled out by Planck whereas some remain perfectly viable. In contrast, radiative corrections do not seem to help chaotic ${\varphi }^4$ models to meet the Planck constraints.

15 pages, 4 figures and 1 table

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