Tuesday, May 7, 2013

1305.0981 (Sayantan Choudhury et al.)

Superconformal approach to Higgs inflation from new Kähler potential    [PDF]

Sayantan Choudhury, Trina Chakraborty, Supratik Pal
We introduce a new class of models of Higgs inflation using the superconformal approach to supergravity by modifying the K\"ahler geometry. Using such a mechanism, we construct a phenomenological functional form of a new K\"ahler potential. From this we construct various types of models which are characterized by a superconformal symmetry breaking parameter $\chi$, and depending on the numerical values of $\chi$ we classify all of the proposed models into three categories. Models with minimal coupling are identified by $\chi=\pm\frac{2}{3}$ branch which are made up of shift symmetry preserving flat directions. We also propose various other models by introducing a non-minimal coupling of the inflaton field to gravity described by $\chi\neq\frac{2}{3}$ branch. We employ all these proposed models to study the inflationary paradigm by estimating the major cosmological observables and confront them with recent observational data from WMAP9 and other complementary data sets. We also mention an allowed range of non-minimal couplings and the {\it Yukawa} type of couplings appearing in the proposed models used for cosmological parameter estimation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0981

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