Inflation, Large Scale Structure and Particle Physics
arXiv:hep-ph/0304264 · doi:10.1007/BF02705090
Abstract
We review experimental and theoretical developments in inflation and its application to structure formation, including the curvaton idea. We then discuss a particle physics model of supersymmetric hybrid inflation at the intermediate scale in which the Higgs scalar field is responsible for large scale structure, and show how such a theory is completely natural in the framework extra dimensions with an intermediate string scale.
Invited talk at 9th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 03), Mumbai (Bombay) India, 3-8 Jan 2003. References added. 12 pages, 8 figs, style files included
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