2014
Aligned Natural Inflation: Monodromies of two Axions
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Pacific/Honolulu
WAT 112 (Watanabe Hall)
WAT 112
Watanabe Hall
Description
Natural (axionic) inflation accomodates sizeable primordial tensor
modes but suffers from the necessity of trans-Planckian excursions
of the inflaton field. This problem can be solved via the mechanism
of aligned axions, where one axions spirals down in the potential of
other axions.