2009

Light inflaton Hunter's Guide

Bezrukov, F., Gorbunov, D.

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We study the phenomenology of a realistic version of the chaotic inflationary model, which can be fully and directly explored in particle physics experiments.

The inflaton mixes with the Standard Model Higgs boson via the scalar potential, and no additional scales above the electroweak scale are present in the model.
The inflaton-to-Higgs coupling is responsible for both reheating in the Early Universe and the inflaton production in particle collisions.
We find the allowed range of the light inflaton mass, 270 MeV<~m_chi<~1.8 GeV, and discuss the ways to find the inflaton.

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