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High-Scale SUSY Breaking Models in light of the BICEP2 Result

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-19 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The large value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio in the cosmic microwave background radiation reported by the BICEP2 collaboration gives strong impact on models of supersymmetry (SUSY). The large ratio indicates inflation with a high-energy scale and thus a high reheating temperature in general, and various SUSY models suffer from the serious gravitino and Polonyi problems. In this article, we discuss a class of the high-scale SUSY breaking models which are completely free from those problems. With especially focusing on the dark matter relic abundance, we examine how the BICEP2 result narrows down the parameter space of the models, assuming the simplest chaotic inflation model. We find that the mass of the dark matter is predicted to be less than about 1 TeV thanks to the non-thermal production in the early universe through the decay of abundant gravitinos produced after the reheating process. We also discuss implications in some details to dark matter searches at collider and indirect dark matter detection experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5880,
  title  = {High-Scale SUSY Breaking Models in light of the BICEP2 Result},
  author = {Keisuke Harigaya and Masahiro Ibe and Koji Ichikawa and Kunio Kaneta and Shigeki Matsumoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5880},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures