Kinetically stabilized inflation

Abstract

In this work, we propose a string-inspired two fields inflation model to address the fine-tuning problem that the standard inflation model suffers. The fast-rolling tachyon $\mathcal{T}$ originated from the D-brane and anti-D-brane pair annihilation locks the inflaton $\phi$ slowly rolling on a Higgs-like potential $V(\phi )=-m_{\phi }^2{\phi }^2+\lambda {\phi }^4$ and drives a kinetically stabilized (KS) inflation. Our numerical simulation confirms such a solution is a dynamic attractor. In particular, for $\lambda <0.8\times 10^{-3}$, the e-folding number contributed by the KS inflation phase can be larger than $62$ to solve the horizon and flatness problems of Big Bang theory. Notably, this KS inflation generates a nearly scale-invariant primordial curvature perturbations spectrum consistent with current cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations. It predicts a low tensor-to-scalar ratio, which the current primordial gravitational wave background (the B-modes in CMB) searches favor.

arXiv comment16 pages, 4 figures

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