Non-minimal quartic inflation in supersymmetric SO(10)

We describe how quartic (λϕ4) inflation with non-minimal coupling to gravity is realized in realistic supersymmetric SO(10) models. In a well-motivated example the 16−16‾ Higgs multiplets, which break SO(10) to SU(5) and yield masses for the right-handed neutrinos, provide the inflaton field ϕ. Thus...

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Main Authors: George K. Leontaris, Nobuchika Okada, Qaisar Shafi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316307766