Can thermal inflation solve the monopole problem ?
arXiv:hep-ph/9808260 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.59.083501
Abstract
It is shown that thermal inflation arises naturally in rank greater than five unified theories when non-renormalisable terms are introduced. Thermal inflation is driven by two Higgs fields Φ_{B-L} and \barΦ_{B-L} which also break U(1)_{B-L} when acquiring vevs at the end of inflation. The inflationary period provides enough e-foldings to solve the monopole problem for M_{B-L} \geq 10^{12} GeV. We point out that observations suggest that M_{B-L} \simeq 10^{14} GeV.
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