Mar 2 – 20, 2015
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

SuperCool Inflation

Mar 11, 2015, 10:05 AM
20m
FB53 (Nordita, Stockholm)

FB53

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Dr Douglas Spolyar (OKC)

Description

SuperCool Inflation is a new technically natural model which gives a graceful exit to old inflation. The Universe starts off hot and trapped in a false vacuum. The Universe supercools and inflates solving the horizon and flatness problems. The inflaton couples to a set of QCD like fermions. When the fermions' non-Abelian gauge group freezes, the Yukawa terms generate a tadpole for the inflaton, which removes the barrier. The model works at scales which can be probed by LHC. Finally, we introduce a light spectator field to generate density perturbations, which match the CMB.

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