Journal
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2015)020
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Effective field theories; Global Symmetries; Phenomenological Models; Sigma Models
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- Science Technology and Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/L000504/1]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000504/1, 1501601] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/L000504/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Identifying the inflaton with a pseudo-Goldstone boson explains the flatness of its potential. Successful Goldstone Inflation should also be robust against UV corrections, such as from quantum gravity: in the language of the effective field theory this implies that all scales are sub-Planckian. In this paper we present scenarios which realise both requirements by examining the structure of Goldstone potentials arising from Coleman-Weinberg contributions. We focus on single-field models, for which we notice that both bosonic and fermionic contributions are required and that spinorial fermion representations can generate the right potential shape. We then evaluate the constraints on non-Gaussianity from higher-derivative interactions, finding that axiomatic constraints on Goldstone boson scattering prevail over the current CMB measurements. The fit to CMB data can be connected to the UV completions for Goldstone Inflation, finding relations in the spectrum of new resonances. Finally, we show how hybrid inflation can be realised in the same context, where both the inflaton and the waterfall fields share a common origin as Goldstones.
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