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Hybrid Inflation Followed by Modular Inflation

Inflationary models with a superheavy scale F-term hybrid inflation followed by an intermediate scale modular inflation are considered. The restrictions on the power spectrum PR of curvature perturbation and the spectral index ns from the recent data within the power-law cosmological model with cold dark matter and a cosmological constant can be met provided that the number of e-foldings NHI∗ s...

Preheating After Modular Inflation

We study (p)reheating in modular (closed string) inflationary scenarios, with a special emphasis on Kähler moduli/Roulette models. It is usually assumed that reheating in such models occurs through perturbative decays. However, we find that there are very strong non-perturbative preheating decay channels related to the particular shape of the inflaton potential (which is highly nonlinear and ha...

Modular Inflation and the Curvaton

Supersymmetric Peccei-Quinn models which provide a suitable candidate for the curvaton field are studied. These models also solve the μ problem, while generating the Peccei-Quinn scale dynamically. The curvaton is a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson corresponding to an angular degree of freedom orthogonal to the axion. Its order parameter increases substantially following a phase transition during i...

Higher Deficit Policies Lead to Higher Inflation

F-Term Hybrid Inflation Followed by Modular Inflation

We consider the well motivated model of the (standard) supersymmetric (SUSY) Fterm hybrid inflation (FHI) which can be realized close to the grand unification (GUT) scale. The predicted scalar spectral index ns cannot be smaller than 0.98 and can exceed unity including corrections from minimal supergravity (SUGRA), if the number of e-foldings corresponding to the pivot scale k∗ = 0.002/Mpc is a...