Nonminimally Assisted Inflation: A General Analysis

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Sang Chul Hyun Jinsu Kim Tatsuki Kodama Seong Chan Park Tomo Takahashi

摘要： The effects of a scalar field, known as the "assistant field," which nonminimally couples to gravity, on single-field inflationary models are studied. The analysis provides analytical expressions for inflationary observables such as the spectral index ($n_s$), the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$), and the local-type nonlinearity parameter ($f_{\rm NL}^{(\rm local)}$). The presence of the assistant field leads to a lowering of $n_s$ and $r$ in most of the parameter space, compared to the original predictions. In some cases, $n_s$ may increase due to the assistant field. This revives compatibility between ruled-out single-field models and the latest observations by Planck-BICEP/Keck. The results are demonstrated using three example models: loop inflation, power-law inflation, and hybrid inflation.

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