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2019

Minimal Higgs inflation with an $R^2$ term in Palatini gravity

Tenkanen, Tommi

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It has recently been suggested that the Standard Model Higgs boson could act as the inflaton while minimally coupled to gravity - given that the gravity sector is extended with an $\alpha R^2$ term and the underlying theory of gravity is of Palatini, rather than metric, type.

In this paper, we revisit the idea and correct some shortcomings in earlier studies.
We find that in this setup the Higgs can indeed act as the inflaton and that the tree-level predictions of the model for the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio are $n_s\simeq 0.941$, $r\simeq 0.3/(1+10^{-8}\alpha)$, respectively, for a typical number of e-folds, $N=50$, between horizon exit of the pivot scale $k=0.05\, {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ and the end of inflation.
Even though the tensor-to-scalar ratio is suppressed compared to the usual minimally coupled case and can be made compatible with data for large enough $\alpha$, the result for $n_s$ is in severe tension with the Planck results.