On the robustness of the primordial power spectrum in renormalized Higgs inflation
Jun 15, 2017Citations per year
Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the cosmological consequences of higher-dimensional operators respecting the asymptotic symmetries of the tree-level Higgs inflation action. The main contribution of these operators to the renormalization group enhanced potential is localized in a compact field range, whose upper limit is close to the end of inflation. The spectrum of primordial fluctuations in the so-called universal regime turns out to be almost insensitive to radiative corrections and in excellent agreement with the present cosmological data. However, higher-dimensional operators can play an important role in critical Higgs inflation scenarios containing a quasi-inflection point along the inflationary trajectory. The interplay of radiative corrections with this quasi-inflection point may translate into a sizable modification of the inflationary observables.Note:
- 12 pages, 8 figures - matches the published version
- operator: higher-dimensional
- power spectrum: primordial
- fluctuation: primordial
- inflation
- radiative correction
- renormalization group
- tree approximation
- trajectory
- Higgs model
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