TY - JOUR
T1 - Higgs chaotic inflation and the primordial B-mode polarization discovered by BICEP2
AU - Nakayama, Kazunori
AU - Takahashi, Fuminobu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 21111006 [K.N. and F.T.], No. 23104008 [F.T.], No. 24111702 [F.T.]), Scientific Research (A) (No. 22244030 [K.N. and F.T.], 21244033 [F.T.]), JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 24740135 ) [F.T.], and Inoue Foundation for Science [F.T.]. This work was also supported by World Premier International Center Initiative (WPI Program), MEXT , Japan.
PY - 2014/6/27
Y1 - 2014/6/27
N2 - We show that the standard model Higgs field can realize the quadratic chaotic inflation, if the kinetic term is significantly modified at large field values. This is a simple realization of the so-called running kinetic inflation. The point is that the Higgs field respects an approximate shift symmetry at high energy scale. The tensor-to-scalar ratio is predicted to be r ≃ 0.13-0.16, which nicely explains the primordial B-mode polarization, r=0.20-0.05+0.07, recently discovered by the BICEP2 experiment. In particular, allowing small modulations induced by the shift symmetry breaking, the negative running spectral index can also be induced. The reheating temperature is expected to be so high that successful thermal leptogenesis is possible. The suppressed quartic coupling of the Higgs field at high energy scales may be related to the Higgs chaotic inflation.
AB - We show that the standard model Higgs field can realize the quadratic chaotic inflation, if the kinetic term is significantly modified at large field values. This is a simple realization of the so-called running kinetic inflation. The point is that the Higgs field respects an approximate shift symmetry at high energy scale. The tensor-to-scalar ratio is predicted to be r ≃ 0.13-0.16, which nicely explains the primordial B-mode polarization, r=0.20-0.05+0.07, recently discovered by the BICEP2 experiment. In particular, allowing small modulations induced by the shift symmetry breaking, the negative running spectral index can also be induced. The reheating temperature is expected to be so high that successful thermal leptogenesis is possible. The suppressed quartic coupling of the Higgs field at high energy scales may be related to the Higgs chaotic inflation.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.034
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.05.034
M3 - Article
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SN - 0370-2693
VL - 734
SP - 96
EP - 99
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -