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$\alpha$-attractors from supersymmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-02-22 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We construct new models of inflation and spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in de Sitter vacuum, with a single chiral superfield, where inflaton is the superpartner of the goldstino. Our approach is based on hyperbolic K\"ahler geometry, and a gauged (non-axionic) U(1)RU(1)_R symmetry rotating the chiral scalar field by a phase. The U(1)RU(1)_R gauge field combines with the angular component of the chiral scalar to form a massive vector, and single-field inflation is driven by the radial part of the scalar. We find that in a certain parameter range they can be approximated by simplest Starobinsky-like (E-model) α\alpha-attractors, thus predicting nsn_s and rr within 1σ1\sigma CMB constraints. Supersymmetry (and RR-symmetry) is broken at a high scale with the gravitino mass m3/21014m_{3/2}\gtrsim 10^{14} GeV, and the fermionic sector also includes a heavy spin-1/21/2 field. In all the considered cases the inflaton is the lightest field of the model.

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@article{arxiv.2009.02203,
  title  = {$\alpha$-attractors from supersymmetry breaking},
  author = {Yermek Aldabergenov and Auttakit Chatrabhuti and Hiroshi Isono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02203},
  year   = {2021}
}

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26 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. v2: updated version accepted to EPJC

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