Helical phase inflation via non-geometric flux compactifications: from natural to starobinsky-like inflation

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	Helical phase inflation via non-geometric flux compactifications: from natural to starobinsky-like inflation
	Li, TJ; Li, ZJ; Nanopoulos, DV
刊名	JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
	2015
期号	10 页码:138
关键词	Supergravity Models Flux compactifications Supersymmetric Effective Theories
通讯作者	Li, ZJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China.
英文摘要	We show that a new class of helical phase inflation models can be simply realized in minimal supergravity, wherein the inflaton is the phase component of a complex field and its potential admits a deformed helicoid structure. We find a new unique complex-valued index chi that characterizes almost the entire region of the n(s) - r plane favored by new Planck observations. Continuously varying the index chi, predictions interpolate from quadratic/natural inflation parameterized by a phase/axion decay constant to Starobinsky-like inflation parameterized by the alpha-parameter. We demonstrate that the simple supergravity construction realizing Starobinsky-like inflation can be obtained from a more microscopic model by integrating out heavy fields, and that the flat phase direction for slow-roll inflation is protected by a mildly broken global U(1) symmetry. We study the geometrical origin of the index chi, and find that it corresponds to a linear constraint relating Kahler moduli. We argue that such a linear constraint is a natural result of moduli stabilization in Type II orientifold compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds with geometric and non-geometric fluxes. Possible choices for the index chi are discrete points on the complex plane that relate to the distribution of supersymmetric Minkowski vacua on moduli space. More precise observations of the inflationary epoch in the future may provide a better estimation of the index chi. Since chi is determined by the fluxes and vacuum expectation values of complex structure moduli, such observations would characterize the geometry of the internal space as well.
学科主题	Physics
类目[WOS]	Physics, Particles & Fields
关键词[WOS]	MODULI STABILIZATION ; SYMMETRY-BREAKING ; CHAOTIC INFLATION ; STRING THEORY ; SUPERGRAVITY ; UNIVERSE ; VACUUM ; TRANSITION ; COSMOLOGY ; SCENARIO
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.itp.ac.cn/handle/311006/20818]
专题	理论物理研究所_理论物理所1978-2010年知识产出
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, TJ,Li, ZJ,Nanopoulos, DV. Helical phase inflation via non-geometric flux compactifications: from natural to starobinsky-like inflation[J]. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS,2015(10):138.
APA	Li, TJ,Li, ZJ,&Nanopoulos, DV.(2015).Helical phase inflation via non-geometric flux compactifications: from natural to starobinsky-like inflation.JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS(10),138.
MLA	Li, TJ,et al."Helical phase inflation via non-geometric flux compactifications: from natural to starobinsky-like inflation".JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS .10(2015):138.