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Challenges for minimal warm inflation in the Standard Model and beyond
Abstract
A minimal realisation of warm inflation, even within the Standard Model, assumes that the inflaton ϕ couples via the effective operator ϕ GG̃. We show that the SM solutions are in tension with the plasma calculation (as each sphaleron transition releases an energy much larger than the temperature) and with the assumed effective operator description. Embedding ϕ as the Goldstone boson of a renormalizable Peccei-Quinn theory requires an anomaly coefficient ≳100, implying a Landau pole for QCD. These tensions are relaxed for more strongly coupled dark gauge sectors.
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BibTeX
@misc{ghoshal2026challenges,
title = {{Challenges for minimal warm inflation in the Standard Model and beyond}},
author = {Anish Ghoshal and Alessandro Strumia},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.09893},
eprint = {2611.09893},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09893},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Challenges for minimal warm inflation in the Standard Model and beyond
AU - Anish Ghoshal
AU - Alessandro Strumia
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.09893
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09893
AB - A minimal realisation of warm inflation, even within the Standard Model, assumes that the inflaton ϕ couples via the effective operator ϕ GG̃. We show that the SM solutions are in tension with the plasma calculation (as each sphaleron transition releases an energy much larger than the temperature) and with the assumed effective operator description. Embedding ϕ as the Goldstone boson of a renormalizable Peccei-Quinn theory requires an anomaly coefficient ≳100, implying a Landau pole for QCD. These tensions are relaxed for more strongly coupled dark gauge sectors.
ER -