Axion Inflation with a Massive Abelian Gauge Field

arXiv:2607.28593 · astro-ph.CO, hep-ph · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, hep-ph

Submitted: 2026-07-30

Updated: 2026-09-22

Comments: 52 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, 5 appendices

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Non-Gaussianity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Primordial Magnetic Fields — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bispectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quintessence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Axions : Theory and Cosmological Role
• Axion Cosmology
• Naturally inflating on steep potentials through electromagnetic dissipation
• Parity violating gravitational waves at the end of inflation
• NANOGrav signal from axion inflation
• Axion inflation in the regime of homogeneous backreaction
• Unveiling the nonlinear dynamics of a rolling axion during inflation
• Phenomenology of a Pseudo-Scalar Inflaton: Naturally Large Nongaussianity
• Particle production during inflation and gravitational waves detectable by ground-based interferometers
• Gauge field production in SUGRA inflation: local non-Gaussianity and primordial black holes
• Adding helicity to inflationary magnetogenesis
• Universal Constraints on Axions from Inflation
• On the validity of the perturbative description of axions during inflation
• Magnetogenesis from axion inflation
• Dissipative Axial Inflation
• Schwinger effect in axion inflation on a lattice
• Thermalized Axion Inflation
• Thermalized axion inflation: natural and monomial inflation with small $r$
• Gauge Field and Fermion Production during Axion Inflation
• Lattice simulations of Abelian gauge fields coupled to axions during Inflation

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