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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.

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@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

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