Chiral gravitational waves and primordial black holes in UV-protected Natural Inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/009zbMATH Open1486.83093arXiv2007.13776OpenAlexW3096208161MaRDI QIDQ5035271FDOQ5035271

Javier Rubio, Juan P. Beltrán Almeida, Dario Bettoni, N. Bernal

Publication date: 21 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider an UV-protected Natural Inflation scenario involving Chern-Simons-like interactions between the inflaton and some beyond the Standard Model gauge fields. The accelerated expansion of the Universe is supported by a combination of a gravitationally-enhanced friction sensitive to the scale of inflation and quantum friction effects associated with the explosive production of gauge fluctuations. The synergy of these two velocity-restraining mechanisms allows for: $i)$ Natural Inflation potentials involving only sub-Planckian coupling constants, $ii)$ the generation of a dark matter component in the form of primordial black holes, and $iii)$ a potentially observable background of chiral gravitational waves at small scales.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13776

zbMATH Keywords

inflationaxionsgravitational waves and CMBR polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Black holes (83C57) Gravitational waves (83C35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56)

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