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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Inflation and Dark Energy from the. Electroweak Phase Transition. Konstantinos Dimopoulos. Lancaster University. Work done with. Tommi Markkanen. arXiv: 1807.04359 [astro-ph.CO] JCAP 1901 (2019) 029. Inflation and Quintessence.

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

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  1. Inflation and Dark Energy from the Electroweak Phase Transition Konstantinos Dimopoulos Lancaster University Work done with Tommi Markkanen arXiv: 1807.04359 [astro-ph.CO] JCAP 1901 (2019) 029

  2. Inflation and Quintessence • Inflation: Period of accelerated expansion in Early Universe ► Makes Universe uniform & flat ► Provides controlled violation of uniformity  structure formation • Inflation sets the initial conditions of the Hot Big Bang • Inflationary Paradigm: Early Universe dominated by potential density of scalar field (inflaton field) • Spectacular agreement with observations • Universe engages in late Inflation at present ► But = fine-tuned as vacuum density of Planck density ► Attributed to vacuum density, due to • Way out: keep and explain late inflation through Dark Energy • Quintessence: Universe dominated by potential density of another scalar; the 5th element after baryons, CDM, photons and neutrinos

  3. Quintessential Inflation • Quintessential Inflation: Both inflation and current acceleration • due to the same field (cosmon) • Successes: ► Natural: inflation & quintessence = the same idea ► Economic: fewer parameters ► Common theoretical framework ► Initial conditions for quintessence determined by inflationary attractor • Problems: ► Form of Potential = artificial + Physics at extreme scales ► Radiative corrections and 5th force problems (violation of equivalence) Electroweak Energy ~ Geometric mean of Planck and Dark Energy • Scales mystery:  DE  EW  Planck log(E/GeV):

  4. Starobinsky Inflation (first is best) • Alexei Starobinsky proposed the first inflation model (1979) • R2 term introduces additional degree of freedom • Lagrange multiplier • and Weyl scaling  Planck sweet spot • CMB:

  5. Our model • EW Higgs with SSB potential: • During inflation:  • No effect on inflationary predictions 

  6. Our model • After inflation: • Reheating produces the thermal bath, which restores EW symmetry  : where • At the EW transition:  Dark Energy 

  7. Our model But:

  8. Bait & Switch • Requirement: Field frozen until today: • EW phase transition makes kinetic term non-canonical • Kinetic pole transposes minimum to infinity:  

  9. Quintessence  • Successful quintessence requires: KD, L. Donaldson-Wood, C. Owen, 1712.01760 • Parameter space: 

  10. Quintessence

  11. Realisation of Bait & Switch • Envisage some coupling of scalaron with Higgs • Example: during inflation:  &  • Another example:

  12. Conclusions • Quintessential Inflation may naturally be achieved through a suitable coupling of the scalaron field of Starobinksy inflation to the electroweak Higgs field. • Single dof with natural mass scales & couplings • Inflationary observables in excellent agreement with CMB • Quintessence avoids any fine-tunings because the idea exploits scales mystery: (EW)2 ~ DE x Planck • After inflation and before the EW transition the scalaron EV rests on minute residual potential density = Dark Energy • Bait & Switch: At EW transition, pole at origin transposes min to infinity and results in successful exponential quintessence. • Quintessence avoids excessive radiative corrections and 5th force problem because loops & interactions are exponentially suppressed • Model produces running of DE barotropic parameter soon to be probed by observations, e.g. EUCLID

  13. Conclusions • Quintessential Inflation may naturally be achieved through a suitable coupling of the scalaron field of Starobinksy inflation to the electroweak Higgs field. • Single dof with natural mass scales & couplings Thank you • Inflationary observables in excellent agreement with CMB • Quintessence avoids any fine-tunings because the idea exploits scales mystery: (EW)2 ~ DE x Planck • After inflation and before the EW transition the scalaron EV rests on minute residual potential density = Dark Energy • Bait & Switch: At EW transition, pole at origin transposes min to infinity and results in successful exponential quintessence. • Quintessence avoids excessive radiative corrections and 5th force problem because loops & interactions are exponentially suppressed • Model produces running of DE barotropic parameter soon to be probed by observations, e.g. EUCLID

  14. “Asymptotic Freedom” • Field can even be super-Planckian without endangering flatness of potential and without 5th force problem Kallosh, Linde (2016) • consider interaction:  &  • strength of interaction: exponentially suppressed  • Similarly, for loop contributions (radiative corrections) 

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