Minimal Plateau Inflation in light of ACT DR6 Observations
Md Riajul Haque, Debaprasad maity

TL;DR
This paper investigates minimal plateau inflation models constrained by recent cosmological observations, analyzing their viability and parameter space, and emphasizing the importance of combining CMB data with reheating physics.
Contribution
It introduces a detailed analysis of minimal plateau inflation models constrained by latest data, including reheating dynamics and supergravity extensions, providing new bounds on model parameters.
Findings
Minimal models with matter-like reheating are consistent with data.
Increasing the potential's exponent narrows the viable parameter space.
Supergravity-inspired models yield tighter constraints.
Abstract
We explore a class of minimal plateau inflationary models constrained by the latest cosmological observations from ACT DR6, Planck 2018, BICEP/Keck 2018, and DESI, collectively referred to as P-ACT-LB-BK18. These models, characterized by a non-polynomial potential, are analyzed using both inflationary and post-inflationary reheating dynamics, and the limits on the viable model parameter space are obtained. Our results show that the minimal model with matter-like post inflationary reheating phase remains consistent with current data at both and levels. The inflaton potential's exponent and reheating epoch are intertwined in that upon its increase, corresponding to the stiffer reheating equation of state, the viable model parameter space in accordance with ACT shrinks, which is further facilitated by the primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) overproduction. We…
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