Dilaton assisted two-field inflation from no-scale supergravity

TL;DR

This paper introduces a two-field inflation model with a dilaton field that modifies the inflaton's kinetic term, aligning with current observational data and testable by future B-mode experiments, and can be realized in no-scale supergravity.

Contribution

It presents a novel two-field inflation model with a dilaton, compatible with observations, and demonstrates its realization within no-scale supergravity.

Findings

The model produces scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio consistent with current data.

It predicts a tensor-to-scalar ratio around 10^{-2}, within reach of upcoming experiments.

The model yields negligible non-Gaussianity and no isocurvature perturbations.

Abstract

We present a two-field inflation model where inflaton field has a non-canonical kinetic term due to the presence of a dilaton field. It is a two-parameter generalization of one-parameter Brans-Dicke gravity in the Einstein frame. We show that in such an inflation model the quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials, which are otherwise ruled out by the present Planck-{\it Keck}/BICEP2 data, yield scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in accordance with the present data. Such a model yield tensor-to-scalar ratio of the order of $10^{-2}$ which is within the reach of $B-$mode experiments like {\it Keck}/BICEP3, CMBPol and thus can be put to test in the near future. This model yields negligible non-Gaussianity and no isocurvature perturbations upto slow-roll approximation. Finally, we show that such a model can be realised in the realm of no-scale supergravity.