Inflation and primordial gravitational waves in scale-invariant quadratic gravity with Higgs

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2023)023MaRDI QIDQ6105232zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. Ghoshal, Debangshu Mukherjee, Massimiliano Rinaldi

Publication date 26 June 2023

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06475

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories BSMphase transitions in the early universescale and conformal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX) Astronomy and astrophysics (85-XX)

Abstract: In scale-invariant models of fundamental physics all mass scales are generated via spontaneous symmetry breaking. In this work, we study inflation in scale-invariant quadratic gravity, in which the Planck mass is generated classically by a scalar field, which evolves from an unstable fixed point to a stable one thus breaking scale-invariance. We investigate the dynamics by means of dynamical system standard techniques. By computing the spectral indices and comparing them with data, we put some constraints on the three dimensionless parameters of the theory. We show that certain regions of the parameter space will be within the range of future CMB missions like CMB-S4, LiteBIRD and STPol. The second half of the paper is dedicated to the analysis of inflationary first-order tensor perturbations and the calculation of the power spectrum of the gravitational waves. We comment on our results and compare them with the ones of mixed Starobinsky-Higgs inflation.

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