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Flavored axion-monodromy inflation
Physical Review D
  • Christopher D. Carone, William & Mary
  • Raymundo Ramos, William & Mary
  • Zhen Wang, William & Mary
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
1-1-2015
Abstract

The hierarchy of fermion masses in the standard model may arise via the breaking of discrete gauge symmetries. The renormalizable interactions of the flavor-symmetry-breaking potential can have accidental global symmetries that are spontaneously broken, leading to pseudo-Goldstone bosons that may drive inflation. We consider two-field, axion-monodromy inflation models in which the inflaton is identified with a linear combination of pseudo-Goldstone bosons of the flavor sector. We show that the resulting models are nontrivially constrained by current cosmological data as well as the requirements of viable flavor model building.

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.116011
Citation Information
Christopher D. Carone, Raymundo Ramos and Zhen Wang. "Flavored axion-monodromy inflation" Physical Review D Vol. 92 Iss. 11 (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher-carone/6/