English

Can MSSM Particle be the Inflaton?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-17 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

We consider the possibility of using one of the DD-flat directions in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) as the inflaton. We show that the flat direction consisting of (first generation) left- and right-handed up-squarks as well as the up-type Higgs boson may play the role of the inflaton if dominant part of the up-quark mass is radiatively generated from supersymmetric loop diagrams. We also point out that, if the R-parity violating Yukawa coupling is of O(107)O(10^{-7}), RR-odd DD-flat directions may be another possible candidate of the inflaton. Such inflation models using DD-flat directions in the MSSM are not only testable with collider experiments but also advantageous to resolve the problem how the inflaton reheats the universe.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0312094,
  title  = {Can MSSM Particle be the Inflaton?},
  author = {Shinta Kasuya and Takeo Moroi and Fuminobu Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0312094},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure; an explanatory comment and references are added

R2 v1 2026-07-22T13:51:57.802Z