Particle physics models of inflation

Abstract

Inflation models are compared with observation on the assumption that the curvature perturbation is generated from the vacuum fluctuation of the inflaton field. The focus is on single-field models with canonical kinetic terms, classified as small- medium- and large-field according to the variation of the inflaton field while cosmological scales leave the horizon. Small-field models are constructed according to the usual paradigm for beyond Standard Model physics

Based on a talk given at the 22nd IAP Colloquium, ``Inflation +25'', Paris, June 2006 Curve omitted from final Figure

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• Hilltop Inflation
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• D-Term Inflation
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• Racetrack Inflation
• Inflation, Supergravity and Superstrings
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• More varieties of hybrid inflation
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• Little Inflatons and Gauge Inflation
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• New Constraints on the running-mass inflation model
• Dynamical Supersymmetric Inflation
• "Graceful" Old Inflation
• Inflation on Moduli Space and Cosmic Perturbations
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