A review of axion inflation in the era of Planck

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DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/21/214002zbMATH Open1277.83008arXiv1305.3557OpenAlexW2127328353WikidataQ131838332 ScholiaQ131838332MaRDI QIDQ2868469FDOQ2868469


Authors: Enrico Pajer, Marco Peloso Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 December 2013

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Because the inflationary mechanism is extremely sensitive to UV-physics, the construction of theoretically robust models of inflation provides a unique window on Planck-scale physics. We review efforts to use an axion with a shift symmetry to ensure a prolonged slow-roll background evolution. The symmetry dictates which operators are allowed, and these in turn determine the observational predictions of this class of models, which include observable gravitational waves (potentially chiral), oscillations in all primordial correlators, specific deviations from scale invariance and Gaussianity and primordial black holes. We discuss the constraints on this class of models in light of the recent Planck results and comment on future perspectives. The shift symmetry is very useful in models of large-field inflation, which typically have monomial potentials, but it cannot explain why two or more terms in the potential are fine-tuned against each other, as needed for typical models of small-field inflation. Therefore some additional symmetries or fine-tuning will be needed if forthcoming experiments will constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio to be r < 0.01.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3557




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