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A No-Scale Inflationary Model to Fit Them All

Published 1 May 2014 in hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc, and hep-th | (1405.0271v3)

Abstract: The magnitude of B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background as measured by BICEP2 favours models of chaotic inflation with a quadratic $m2 \phi2/2$ potential, whereas data from the Planck satellite favour a small value of the tensor-to-scalar perturbation ratio $r$ that is highly consistent with the Starobinsky $R + R2$ model. Reality may lie somewhere between these two scenarios. In this paper we propose a minimal two-field no-scale supergravity model that interpolates between quadratic and Starobinsky-like inflation as limiting cases, while retaining the successful prediction $n_s \simeq 0.96$.

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