Flux flattening in axion monodromy inflation
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DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)071zbMATH Open1380.83312arXiv1703.09729OpenAlexW3124907168WikidataQ63353849 ScholiaQ63353849MaRDI QIDQ683168FDOQ683168
Authors: Aitor Landete, Fernando Marchesano, Gary Shiu, Gianluca Zoccarato 
Publication date: 5 February 2018
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: String theory models of axion monodromy inflation exhibit scalar potentials which are quadratic for small values of the inflaton field and evolve to a more complicated function for large field values. Oftentimes the large field behaviour is gentler than quadratic, lowering the tensor-to-scalar ratio. This effect, known as flattening, has been observed in the string theory context through the properties of the DBI+CS D-brane action. We revisit such flattening effects in type IIB flux compactifications with mobile D7-branes, with the inflaton identified with the D7-brane position. We observe that, with a generic choice of background fluxes, flattening effects are larger than previously observed, allowing to fit these models within current experimental bounds. In particular, we compute the cosmological observables in scenarios compatible with closed-string moduli stabilisation, finding tensor-to-scalar ratios as low as r ~ 0.04. These are models of single field inflation in which the inflaton is much lighter than the other scalars through a mild tuning of the compactification data.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09729
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