Multifield inflation after Planck: the case for nonminimal couplings

DI Kaiser, EI Sfakianakis - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Multifield models of inflation with nonminimal couplings are in excellent agreement with the
recent results from Planck. Across a broad range of couplings and initial conditions, such …

Cosmological attractors and initial conditions for inflation

JJM Carrasco, R Kallosh, A Linde - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
Inflationary α-attractor models in supergravity, which provide excellent fits to the latest
observational data, are based on the Poincaré disk hyperbolic geometry. We refine these …

Spectrum of the axion dark sector

MJ Stott, DJE Marsh, C Pongkitivanichkul, LC Price… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Axions arise in many theoretical extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, in
particular the “string axiverse.” If the axion masses, ma, and (effective) decay constants, fa …

Simple predictions from multifield inflationary models

R Easther, J Frazer, HV Peiris, LC Price - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We explore whether multifield inflationary models make unambiguous predictions for
fundamental cosmological observables. Focusing on N-quadratic inflation, we numerically …

Hybrid inflation in the complex plane

W Buchmüller, V Domcke, K Kamada… - Journal of cosmology …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Supersymmetric hybrid inflation is an exquisite framework to connect inflationary cosmology
to particle physics at the scale of grand unification. Ending in a phase transition associated …

MultiModeCode: An efficient numerical solver for multifield inflation

LC Price, J Frazer, J Xu, HV Peiris… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present MULTIMODECODE, a Fortran 95/2000 package for the numerical exploration of
multifield inflation models. This program facilitates efficient Monte Carlo sampling of prior …

Slow-roll approximation in quantum cosmology

O Janssen - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In minimally coupled scalar field theories with a potential of the slow-roll type, we give a
detailed description of the complex O (4)-symmetric solutions to Einstein's equations on the …

Testing inflation and curvaton scenarios with CMB distortions

S Clesse, B Garbrecht, Y Zhu - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Prior to recombination, Silk damping causes the dissipation of energy from acoustic waves
into the monopole of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), resulting in spectral …

Inflating an inhomogeneous universe

R Easther, LC Price, J Rasero - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
While cosmological inflation can erase primordial inhomogeneities, it is possible that
inflation may not begin in a significantly inhomogeneous universe. This issue is particularly …

Predictions in multifield models of inflation

J Frazer - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a method for obtaining an analytic expression for the density function of
observables in multifield models of inflation with sum-separable potentials. The most striking …