Strong dynamics and inflation: A review

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2015.01.008zbMATH Open1328.83192arXiv1410.7547OpenAlexW1970022810MaRDI QIDQ902002FDOQ902002

Phongpichit Channuie

Publication date: 6 January 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we review how strong dynamics can be efficiently employed as a viable alternative to study the mechanism of cosmic inflation. We examine single-field inflation in which the inflaton emerges as a bound state stemming from various strongly interacting field theories. We constrain the number of e-foldings for composite models of inflation in order to obtain a successful inflation. We study a set of cosmological parameters, e.g., the primordial spectral index $n_s$ and tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$, and confront the predicted results with the joint Planck data, and with the recent BICEP2 data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7547

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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Cited In (2)

• Measuring the strength of dissipative inflation
• Composite hybrid inflation: dilaton and waterfall pions

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