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Generating curvature perturbations with or without MSSM flat directions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-10-27 v4 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider instant preheating as the mechanism for generating the curvature perturbation at the end of chaotic inflation. Then we examine if inflation could be driven by a Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) flat direction or a sneutrino. Our simple mechanism relaxes some serious constraints that appeared in past studies, making inflation driven by a MSSM flat direction or a sneutrino more plausible.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0701024,
  title  = {Generating curvature perturbations with or without MSSM flat directions},
  author = {Tomohiro Matsuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0701024},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

20pages, no figure, added an appendix, accepted for publication in JCAP

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