Non-Bunch-Davies Initial State Reconciles Chaotic Models with BICEP and Planck

Amjad Ashoorioon, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari +1

The BICEP2 experiment has announced a signal for primordial gravity waves with tensor-to-scalar ratio $r=0.2_{-0.05}^{+0.07}$ [arXiv:1403.3985]. There are two ways to reconcile thi…