The inflaton as an MSSM Higgs and open string modulus monodromy inflation

It has been recently pointed out that high scale inflation, as recently hinted by the BICEP2 results, is consistent with the identification of an inflaton mass mI≃1013 GeV with the SUSY breaking scale in an MSSM with a fine-tuned SM Higgs. This identification leads to a Higgs mass mh≃126 GeV, consis...

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Main Authors: Luis E. Ibáñez, Irene Valenzuela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-09-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931400522X