Dynamics of relaxed inflation
From MaRDI portal
Publication:1748774
Abstract: The cosmological relaxation of the electroweak scale has been proposed as a mechanism to address the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model. A field, the relaxion, rolls down its potential and, in doing so, scans the squared mass parameter of the Higgs, relaxing it to a parametrically small value. In this work, we promote the relaxion to an inflaton. We couple it to Abelian gauge bosons, thereby introducing the necessary dissipation mechanism which slows down the field in the last stages. We describe a novel reheating mechanism, which relies on the gauge-boson production leading to strong electromagnetic fields, and proceeds via the vacuum production of electron-positron pairs through the Schwinger effect. We refer to this mechanism as Schwinger reheating. We discuss the cosmological dynamics of the model and the phenomenological constraints from CMB and other experiments. We find that a cutoff close to the Planck scale may be achieved. In its minimal form, the model does not generate sufficient curvature perturbations and additional ingredients, such as a curvaton field, are needed.
Recommendations
Cites work
- A clockwork theory
- A review of axion inflation in the era of Planck
- Aligned natural inflation: monodromies of two axions
- Axion monodromy and the weak gravity conjecture
- Disassembling the clockwork mechanism
- Dynamics of relaxed inflation
- Electroweak relaxation from finite temperature
- Finite-Temperature Field Theory
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3020390 (Why is no real title available?)
- Mirror cosmological relaxation of the electroweak scale
- Natural heavy supersymmetry
- Natural relaxation
- Naturalizing supersymmetry with a two-field relaxion mechanism
- On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization
- Realizing the relaxion from multiple axions and its UV completion with high scale supersymmetry
- Relaxion monodromy and the weak gravity conjecture
- Relaxion window
- Runaway relaxion monodromy
Cited in
(25)- Higgs relaxation after inflation
- Mirror cosmological relaxation of the electroweak scale
- Peccei-Quinn relaxion
- Dynamics of relaxed inflation
- Influence of the Schwinger effect on radiatively corrected Higgs inflationary magnetogenesis
- Relic abundance of dark photon dark matter
- Cosmological relaxation from dark fermion production
- Imprints of Schwinger effect on primordial spectra
- Electroweak relaxation from finite temperature
- Dynamic scale anomalous transport in QCD with electromagnetic background
- Natural relaxation
- Identifying universality in warm inflation
- Gauge field and fermion production during axion inflation
- Dark photon dark matter from a rolling inflaton
- Cosmological collider signatures of massive vectors from non-Gaussian gravitational waves
- Model-independent constraints in inflationary magnetogenesis
- Resonant backreaction in axion inflation
- Gauge field production and Schwinger reheating in runaway axion inflation
- Vector dark matter production at the end of inflation
- Inflation dynamics in the frequency domain
- The Schwinger effect and natural inflationary magnetogenesis
- Influence of tachyonic instability on the Schwinger effect in Higgs inflation model
- Influence of tachyonic instability on the Schwinger effect by axial coupling in natural inflation model when strong back-reaction exists
- On the Schwinger effect during axion inflation
- Quantum kinetic approach to the Schwinger production of scalar particles in an expanding universe
This page was built for publication: Dynamics of relaxed inflation
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1748774)
