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Cosmological Moduli Problem and Oscillating Inflation in Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v3 Astrophysics

Abstract

We investigate cosmological moduli problem in the gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking (GMSB). A mini-inflation (oscillating inflation) takes place when a scalar field corresponding to the flat direction in GMSB oscillates along the logarithmic potential induced by the gauge-mediation mechanism. It is shown that this oscillating inflation can sufficiently dilute the relic abundance of the string moduli for some ranges of parameters in the GMSB models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810334,
  title  = {Cosmological Moduli Problem and Oscillating Inflation in Gauge-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking},
  author = {T. Asaka and M. Kawasaki and Masahide Yamaguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810334},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Some typos and statements are corrected; to appear in Phys. Lett. B