Scalaron the healer: removing the strong-coupling in the Higgs- and Higgs-dilaton inflations

We show that introducing R2-term makes the Higgs-inflation and Higgs-dilaton inflation consistent models: the strong coupling energy scales in scalar, gauge and gravity sectors all are lifted up to the Planck scale.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dmitry Gorbunov, Anna Tokareva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318308554