Could the next generation of cosmology experiments exclude supergravity?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Gravitinos are expected to be produced in any local supersymmetric model. Using their abundance prediction as a function of the reheating energy scale, it is argued that the next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments could exclude supergravity or strongly favor "thermal-like" inflation models if B mode polarized radiation were detected. Galactic cosmic--ray production by evaporating primordial black holes is also investigated as a way of constraining the Hubble mass at the end of inflation. Subsequent limits on the gravitino mass and on the related grand unification parameters are derived.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402187,
title = {Could the next generation of cosmology experiments exclude supergravity?},
author = {A. Barrau and N. Ponthieu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402187},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 5 figures, published version with minor changes, results unchanged