23-25 May 2016
Edificio Carolino, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Mexico/General timezone
Contribution Oral contribution
Flavored Axion-Monodromy inflation
Speakers
- Raymundo A. RAMOS
Primary authors
- Christopher D. CARONE (College of William and Mary)
- Raymundo A. RAMOS (College of William and Mary)
- Zhen WANG (College of William and Mary)
Description
This talk will describe models that account for both inflation and the hierarchy of fermion masses. The breaking of a flavor-symmetric potential provides an origin for the pattern of the Yukawa couplings of fermions. This potential may contain accidental global symmetries that break spontaneously, leading to pseudo-Goldstone bosons with the appropriate axion-monodromy potential for inflation. In the particular model presented, a linear combination of two fields is identified with a slow-rolling inflaton. The way in which inflation ends will depend on the initial conditions and the parameters of the potential.