Inflation driven by scalar field with non-minimal kinetic coupling with Higgs and quadratic potentials

TL;DR

This paper investigates inflation driven by a scalar field with non-minimal kinetic coupling, analyzing quadratic and Higgs potentials to connect inflationary dynamics with particle physics.

Contribution

It introduces a model with non-minimal kinetic coupling and derives conditions for slow roll inflation with specific potentials.

Findings

Identified slow roll conditions for the model.

Connected inflationary parameters with particle physics.

Analyzed quadratic and Higgs potentials in this context.

Abstract

We study a scalar field with non-minimal kinetic coupling to itself and to the curvature. The slow rolling conditions allowing an inflationary background have been found. The quadratic and Higgs type potentials have been considered, and the corresponding values for the scalar fields at the end of inflation allows to recover the connection with particle physics.