Wiggly Whipped Inflation
Dhiraj Kumar Hazra, Arman Shafieloo, George F. Smoot, Alexei A., Starobinsky

TL;DR
This paper introduces Wiggly Whipped Inflation, a model that explains CMB observations and primordial gravitational waves by incorporating sharp features in the inflationary potential, enabling detailed inflationary tomography.
Contribution
The paper develops a new inflationary model with sharp potential features that fit BICEP2 and Planck data and explains localized CMB features with primordial wiggles.
Findings
Model fits BICEP2 and Planck data simultaneously
Sharp features produce observable wiggles in the primordial spectrum
Potential transition occurs at about 14.6 M_{Pl}
Abstract
Motivated by BICEP2 results on the CMB polarization B-mode which imply primordial gravitational waves are produced when the Universe has the expansion rate of about GeV, and by deviations from a smooth power-law behaviour for multipoles in the CMB temperature anisotropy power spectrum found in the WMAP and Planck experiments, we have expanded our class of large field inflationary models that fit both the BICEP2 and Planck CMB observations consistently. These best-fitted large field models are found to have a transition from a faster roll to the slow roll inflation at a field value around 14.6~ and thus a potential energy of . In general this transition with sharp features in the inflaton potential produces not only suppression of scalars relative to tensor modes at small but also…
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