Notes on natural inflation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Yonekura, Kazuya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

inflation; particle physics cosmology connection; supersymmetry and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908620585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/054     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. BICEP2 collaboration, P.A.R. Ade et al., 2014 Detection of B-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 241101 [1403.3985]
2. D. Baumann, TASI Lectures on Inflation, [0907.5424]
3. A.D. Linde, 1983 Chaotic Inflation, Phys. Lett. B 129 177
4. K. Freese, J.A. Frieman and A.V. Olinto, 1990 Natural inflation with pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65 3233
5. E. Silverstein and A. Westphal, 2008 Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity Waves and String Inflation, Phys. Rev. D 78 106003 [0803.3085]
6. L. McAllister, E. Silverstein and A. Westphal, 2010 Gravity Waves and Linear Inflation from Axion Monodromy, Phys. Rev. D 82 046003 [0808.0706]
7. K. Freese and W.H. Kinney, Natural Inflation: Consistency with Cosmic Microwave Background Observations of Planck and BICEP2, [1403.5277]
8. 2: Testing the Simplest Inflationary Potential, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 241303 [1404.1065]
9. T. Banks, M. Dine, P.J. Fox and E. Gorbatov, 2003 On the possibility of large axion decay constants J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 2003 06 001 [hep-th/0303252]
10. E. Witten, 1979 Current Algebra Theorems for the U(1) Goldstone Boson, Nucl. Phys. B 156 269
11. E. Witten, 1980 Large-N Chiral Dynamics, Annals Phys. 128 363
12. E. Witten, 1998 Theta dependence in the large-N limit of four-dimensional gauge theories, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 2862 [hep-th/9807109]
13. N. Kaloper, A. Lawrence and L. Sorbo, 2011 An Ignoble Approach to Large Field Inflation J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 2011 03 023 [1101.0026]
14. S. Dubovsky, A. Lawrence and M.M. Roberts, 2012 Axion monodromy in a model of holographic gluodynamics J. High Energy Phys. JHEP02(2012)053 [1105.3740]
15. N. Kaloper and L. Sorbo, 2009 A Natural Framework for Chaotic Inflation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 121301 [0811.1989]
16. M. Berg, E. Pajer and S. Sjors, 2010 Dante's Inferno, Phys. Rev. D 81 103535 [0912.1341]
17. N. Kaloper and A. Lawrence, 2014 Natural Chaotic Inflation and UV Sensitivity, Phys. Rev. D 90 023506 [1404.2912]
18. K. Harigaya and M. Ibe, 2014 Simple realization of inflaton potential on a Riemann surface, Phys. Lett. B 738 301 [1404.3511]
19. S. Dimopoulos, S. Kachru, J. McGreevy and J.G. Wacker, 2008 N-flation J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 2008 08 003 [hep-th/0507205]
20. A. Ashoorioon, H. Firouzjahi and M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari, 2009 M-flation: Inflation From Matrix Valued Scalar Fields J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 2009 06 018 [0903.1481]
21. K. Harigaya, M. Ibe, K. Schmitz and T.T. Yanagida, 2013 Chaotic Inflation with a Fractional Power-Law Potential in Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories, Phys. Lett. B 720 125 [1211.6241]
22. K. Harigaya, M. Ibe, K. Schmitz and T.T. Yanagida, 2014 Dynamical Chaotic Inflation in the Light of BICEP2, Phys. Lett. B 733 283 [1403.4536]
23. C. Vafa and E. Witten, 1984 Parity Conservation in QCD, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53 535
24. S.R. Coleman, 1976 More About the Massive Schwinger Model, Annals Phys. 101 239
25. E. Witten, 1979 Instantons, the Quark Model and the 1/N Expansion, Nucl. Phys. B 149 285
26. A. D'Adda, M. Lüscher and P. Di Vecchia, 1978 A 1/n Expandable Series of Nonlinear σ-models with Instantons, Nucl. Phys. B 146 63
27. G. 't Hooft, 1976 Symmetry Breaking Through Bell-Jackiw Anomalies, Phys. Rev. Lett. 37 8
28. T. Sakai and S. Sugimoto, 2005 Low energy hadron physics in holographic QCD, Prog. Theor. Phys. 113 843 [hep-th/0412141]
29. K.A. Intriligator and N. Seiberg, 1996 Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric-magnetic duality, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 45BC 1 [hep-th/9509066]
30. I. Affleck, M. Dine and N. Seiberg, 1984 Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking in Supersymmetric QCD, Nucl. Phys. B 241 493
31. E. Witten, 1982 Constraints on Supersymmetry Breaking, Nucl. Phys. B 202 253
32. E. Witten, 2002 Supersymmetric index in four-dimensional gauge theories Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 5 841 [hep-th/0006010]
33. K. Harigaya and M. Ibe, Phase Locked Inflation - Effectively Trans-Planckian Natural Inflation, [1407.4893]
34. S.R. Coleman, 1977 The Fate of the False Vacuum. 1. Semiclassical Theory, Phys. Rev. D 15 2929 [Erratum ibid D 16 (1977) 1248]
35. S.R. Coleman and F. De Luccia, 1980 Gravitational Effects on and of Vacuum Decay, Phys. Rev. D 21 3305
36. G.R. Dvali and M.A. Shifman, 1997 Domain walls in strongly coupled theories, Phys. Lett. B 396 64 [Erratum ibid B 407 (1997) 452] [hep-th/9612128]
37. E. Witten, 1997 Branes and the dynamics of QCD, Nucl. Phys. B 507 658 [hep-th/9706109]
38. E. Witten, 1998 Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition and confinement in gauge theories Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2 505 [hep-th/9803131]
39. J. Polchinski and M.J. Strassler, The String dual of a confining four-dimensional gauge theory, [hep-th/0003136]
40. I.R. Klebanov and M.J. Strassler, 2000 Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: Duality cascades and chi SB resolution of naked singularities J. High Energy Phys. JHEP08(2000)052 [hep-th/0007191]
41. J.M. Maldacena and C. Núñez, 2001 Towards the large-N limit of pure N=1 super Yang-Mills, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 588 [hep-th/0008001]
42. N. Arkani-Hamed, S. Dimopoulos and S. Kachru, Predictive landscapes and new physics at a TeV, [hep-th/0501082]
43. J. Distler and U. Varadarajan, Random polynomials and the friendly landscape, [hep-th/0507090]
44. N. Arkani-Hamed, L. Motl, A. Nicolis and C. Vafa, 2007 The String landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force J. High Energy Phys. JHEP06(2007)060 [hep-th/0601001]
45. M. Kawasaki, M. Yamaguchi and T. Yanagida, 2000 Natural chaotic inflation in supergravity, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 3572 [hep-ph/0004243]
46. G.F. Giudice, M.A. Luty, H. Murayama and R. Rattazzi, 1998 Gaugino mass without singlets J. High Energy Phys. JHEP12(1998)027 [hep-ph/9810442]
47. L. Randall and R. Sundrum, 1999 Out of this world supersymmetry breaking, Nucl. Phys. B 557 79 [hep-th/9810155]
48. L.J. Hall and Y. Nomura, 2014 Grand Unification and Intermediate Scale Supersymmetry J. High Energy Phys. JHEP02(2014)129 [1312.6695]
49. L.J. Hall, Y. Nomura and S. Shirai, 2014 Grand Unification, Axion and Inflation in Intermediate Scale Supersymmetry J. High Energy Phys. JHEP06(2014)137 [1403.8138]
50. K. Harigaya, M. Ibe and T.T. Yanagida, R-symmetric Axion/Natural Inflation in Supergravity via Deformed Moduli Dynamics, [1409.0330]
51. M. Dine, P. Draper and A. Monteux, 2014 Monodromy Inflation in SUSY QCD J. High Energy Phys. JHEP07(2014)146 [1405.0068]