Testing non-minimally coupled inflation with CMB data: a Bayesian analysis

Abstract

We use the most recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) data to perform a Bayesian statistical analysis and discuss the observational viability of inflationary models with a non-minimal coupling,~$\xi$, between the inflaton field and the Ricci scalar. We particularize our analysis to two examples of small and large field inflationary models, namely, the Coleman-Weinberg and the chaotic quartic potentials. We find that (i) the $\xi$ parameter is closely correlated with the primordial amplitude; (ii) although improving the agreement with the CMB data in the $r-n_s$ plane, where $r$ is the tensor-to-scalar ratio and $n_s$ the primordial spectral index, a non-null coupling is strongly disfavoured with respect to the minimally coupled standard $\Lambda$CDM model, since the upper bounds of the Bayes factor (odds) for $\xi$ parameter are greater than $150:1$.

13 pages,7 figures

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