Gravitational production of gravitinos
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We calculate the number density of helicity gravitinos produced out of the vacuum by the non-static gravitational field in a generic inflation scenario. We compare it to the number density of gravitinos produced in particle interactions during reheating.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908333,
title = {Gravitational production of gravitinos},
author = {Martin Lemoine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908333},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTex 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.D (submitted June 14)