Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation

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Autori principali: Cicoli, Michele, Hughes, Christopher, Kamal, Ahmed Rakin, Marino, Francesco, Quevedo, Fernando, Ramos-Hamud, Mario, Villa, Gonzalo
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author Cicoli, Michele
Hughes, Christopher
Kamal, Ahmed Rakin
Marino, Francesco
Quevedo, Fernando
Ramos-Hamud, Mario
Villa, Gonzalo
author_facet Cicoli, Michele
Hughes, Christopher
Kamal, Ahmed Rakin
Marino, Francesco
Quevedo, Fernando
Ramos-Hamud, Mario
Villa, Gonzalo
contents We study a new framework for brane-antibrane inflation where moduli stabilisation relies purely on perturbative corrections to the effective action. This guarantees that the model does not suffer from the eta-problem. The inflationary potential has two contributions: the tension of an antibrane at the tip of a warped throat, and its Coulomb interaction with a mobile brane. This represents the first realisation of the original idea of brane-antibrane inflation, as opposed to inflection point inflation which arises when the moduli are fixed with non-perturbative effects. Moreover, we formulate the brane-antibrane dynamics as an F-term potential of a nilpotent superfield in a manifestly supersymmetric effective theory. We impose compatibility with data and consistency conditions on control over the approximations and find that slow-roll inflation can occur in a large region of the underlying parameter space. The scalar spectral index is in agreement with data and the tensor-to-scalar ratio is beyond current observational reach. Interestingly, after the end of inflation the volume mode can, but does not need to, evolve towards a late-time minimum at larger values.
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spellingShingle Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation
Cicoli, Michele
Hughes, Christopher
Kamal, Ahmed Rakin
Marino, Francesco
Quevedo, Fernando
Ramos-Hamud, Mario
Villa, Gonzalo
High Energy Physics - Theory
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We study a new framework for brane-antibrane inflation where moduli stabilisation relies purely on perturbative corrections to the effective action. This guarantees that the model does not suffer from the eta-problem. The inflationary potential has two contributions: the tension of an antibrane at the tip of a warped throat, and its Coulomb interaction with a mobile brane. This represents the first realisation of the original idea of brane-antibrane inflation, as opposed to inflection point inflation which arises when the moduli are fixed with non-perturbative effects. Moreover, we formulate the brane-antibrane dynamics as an F-term potential of a nilpotent superfield in a manifestly supersymmetric effective theory. We impose compatibility with data and consistency conditions on control over the approximations and find that slow-roll inflation can occur in a large region of the underlying parameter space. The scalar spectral index is in agreement with data and the tensor-to-scalar ratio is beyond current observational reach. Interestingly, after the end of inflation the volume mode can, but does not need to, evolve towards a late-time minimum at larger values.
title Back to the origins of brane-antibrane inflation
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00097