Towards hybrid inflation with $n_s=1$ in light of Hubble tension and primordial gravitational waves

Abstract

Recently, it has been found that complete resolution of the Hubble tension might point to a scale-invariant Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum of primordial scalar perturbation, i.e. $n_s=1$ for $H_0\sim 73$km/s/Mpc. We show that for well-known slow-roll models, if inflation ends by a waterfall instability with respect to another field in the field space while inflaton is still at a deep slow-roll region, $n_s$ can be lifted to $n_s=1$. A surprise of our result is that with pre-recombination early dark energy, chaotic ${\varphi }^2$ inflation, ruled out by Planck+BICEP/Keck in standard $\Lambda$CDM, can be revived, which is now well within testable region of upcoming cosmic microwave background B-mode experiments.

12 pages, 3 figures; v2 reference added

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