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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 ±3/2\pm3/2 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.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9908333,
  title  = {Gravitational production of gravitinos},
  author = {Martin Lemoine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9908333},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTex 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.D (submitted June 14)