Brane inflation revisited after WMAP five-year results

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Published 4 March 2009 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Yin-Zhe Ma and Xin Zhang JCAP03(2009)006 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/006

1475-7516/2009/03/006

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit brane inflation models with the WMAP five-year results. The WMAP five-year data favor a red-tilted power spectrum of primordial fluctuations at the level of two standard deviations, which is the same as the WMAP three-year result qualitatively, but quantitatively the spectral index is slightly greater than the three-year value. This result can bring impacts on brane inflation models. According to the WMAP five-year data, we find that the KKLMMT model can survive at the level of one standard deviation, and the fine-tuning of the parameter β can be alleviated to a certain extent at the level of two standard deviations.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/006