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Dynamically induced Planck scale and inflation

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2015)065

Keywords

Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Renormalization Group

Funding

  1. CERN+
  2. EU through the ERDF CoE program
  3. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [FPA2012-32828]
  4. Consolider-CPAN [CSD2007-00042]
  5. Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa Programme [SEV-2012-0249]
  6. C.A. de Madrid [HEPHACOS-S2009/ESP1473]
  7. [PUT799]
  8. [MTT8]
  9. [MTT60]
  10. [IUT23-6]

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Theories where the Planck scale is dynamically generated from dimensionless interactions provide predictive inflationary potentials and super-Planckian field variations. We first study the minimal single field realisation in the low-energy effective field theory limit, finding the predictions n(s) approximate to 0.96 for the spectral index and r approximate to 0.13 for the tensor-toscalar ratio, which can be reduced down to approximate to 0.04 in presence of large couplings. Next we consider agravity as a dimensionless quantum gravity theory finding a multifield inflation that converges towards an attractor trajectory and predicts n(s) approximate to 0.96 and 0.003 < r < 0.13, interpolating between the quadratic and Starobinsky inflation. These theories relate the smallness of the weak scale to the smallness of inflationary perturbations: both arise naturally because of small couplings, implying a reheating temperature of 10(7-9) GeV. A measurement of r by Keck/Bicep3 would give us information on quantum gravity in the dimensionless scenario.

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