Inflation model constraints from data released in 2015
Abstract
We provide the latest constraints on the power spectra of both scalar and tensor perturbations from the CMB data (including Planck~2015, BICEP2 \& Keck Array experiments) and the new BAO scales from SDSS-III BOSS observation. We find that the inflation model with a convex potential is not favored and both the inflation model with a monomial potential and the natural inflation model are marginally disfavored at around 95\% confidence level. But both the Brane inflation model and the Starobinsky inflation model fit the data quite well.
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