More hilltop inflation models
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Using analytic expressions, we explore the parameter space for hilltop inflation models with a potential of the form . With the positive sign and this converts the original hybrid inflation model into a hilltop model, allowing the spectral index to agree with the observed value . In some cases the observed value is theoretically favored, while in others there is only the generic prediction |n-1|\lsim 1.Note:
- 11 pages, 25 figures
- inflation
- cosmology of theories beyond the SM
- physics of the early universe
- power spectrum
- inflation: hybrid
- inflation: modular
- black hole: formation
- curvature: perturbation
- potential
- power spectrum
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