BMA angered by below inflation pay offer

Inflation From Symmetry Breaking Below the Planck Scale

We investigate general scalar field potentials V (φ) for inflationary cosmology arising from spontaneous symmetry breaking. We find that potentials which are dominated by terms of order φm with m > 2 can satisfy observational constraints at an arbitrary symmetry breaking scale. Of particular interest, the spectral index of density fluctuations is shown to be independent of the specific form of ...

Turning the BMA into print.

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The first BMA Gold Medal.

The BMA in agony.

The BMA suffered agonies last week. And the chairman of its council, Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, suffered even more. Why the agony and will anything be learnt? Even before the annual representative meeting (the supreme policy making body of the association) had opened in Inverness last week a whispering campaign had begun. It said that Dr Lee-Potter (attending his first such meeting as chairman of co...

Hybrid Inflation Followed by Modular Inflation

Inflationary models with a superheavy scale F-term hybrid inflation followed by an intermediate scale modular inflation are considered. The restrictions on the power spectrum PR of curvature perturbation and the spectral index ns from the recent data within the power-law cosmological model with cold dark matter and a cosmological constant can be met provided that the number of e-foldings NHI∗ s...