@inproceedings{811605bfd5104b299fbcbac8d130046a,
title = "Modified gravity and inflaton assisted dynamical generation of charge confinement and electroweak symmetry breaking in cosmology",
abstract = " We describe a new type of gravity-matter models where modified f (R) = R + R 2 gravity couples non-canonically to a scalar {"}inflaton{"}, to the bosonic sector of the electroweak particle model and to a special nonlinear gauge field with a square-root of the standard Maxwell/Yang-Mills kinetic term simulating QCD confining dynamics. Our construction is based on the powerful formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume-forms - alternative metric-independent volume elements defined in terms of auxiliary antisymmetric tensor gauge fields. Our model provides a unified Lagrangian action principle description of: (i) the evolution of both {"}early{"} and {"}late{"} universe by the {"}inflaton{"} scalar field; (ii) gravity-inflaton-assisted dynamical generation of Higgs spontaneous breakdown of electroweak gauge symmetry in the {"}late{"} universe, as well as dynamical suppression of electroweak breakdown in the {"}early{"} universe; (iii) gravity-inflaton-assisted dynamical generation of QCD-like confinement in the {"}late{"} universe and suppression of confinement in the {"}early{"} universe due to the special interplay with the dynamics of the QCD-simulating nonlinear gauge field.",
author = "Eduardo Guendelman and Emil Nissimov and Svetlana Pacheva",
note = "Funding Information: We gratefully acknowledge support of our collaboration through the academic exchange agreement between the Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel, and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. E.N. and E.G. have received partial support from European COST actions MP-1405 and CA-16104, and from CA-15117 and CA-16104, respectively. E.N. and S.P. are also thankful to Bulgarian National Science Fund for support via research grant DN-18/1. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Author(s).; 10th Jubilee Conference of the Balkan Physical Union, BPU 2018 ; Conference date: 26-08-2018 Through 30-08-2018",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1063/1.5091244",
language = "English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Mishonov, {Todor M.} and Varonov, {Albert M.}",
booktitle = "10th Jubilee Conference of the Balkan Physical Union",
}