Axion-driven hybrid inflation over a barrier
arXiv:2101.11173 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043511
Abstract
We present a scenario where an axion-like field drives inflation until a potential barrier, which keeps a waterfall field at the origin, disappears and a waterfall transition occurs. Such a barrier separates the scale of inflation from that of the waterfall transition. We find the observed spectrum of the cosmic microwave background indicates that the decay constant of the inflaton is well below the Planck scale, with the inflationary Hubble parameter spanning a wide range. Further, our model involves dark matter candidates including the inflaton itself. Also, for a complex waterfall field, we can determine cosmologically the Peccei-Quinn scale associated with the strong CP problem.
arXiv comment(v1) 12 pages, 2 figures; (v2) 11 pages, to appear in Physical Review D
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