A walking dilaton inflation

We propose an inflationary scenario based on a many-flavor hidden QCD with eight flavors, which realizes the almost scale-invariant (walking) gauge dynamics. The theory predicts two types of composite (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone bosons, the pions and the lightest scalar (dilaton) associated with the sp...

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Main Authors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinya Matsuzaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320301945