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UV-Protected Inflation
Cristiano Germani, Alex Kehagias
In Natural Inflation, the Inflaton is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson which acquires a mass by explicit breaking of a global shift symmetry at scale f. In this case, for small field…
hep-ph2010★ 400 cited
New Model of Inflation with Non-minimal Derivative Coupling of Standard Model Higgs Boson to Gravity
Cristiano Germani, Alex Kehagias
In this letter we show that there is a unique non-minimal derivative coupling of the Standard Model Higgs boson to gravity such that: it propagates no more degrees of freedom than…