High Temperature Symmetry Breaking via Flat Directions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We show that the natural presence of flat directions in supersymmetric theories allows for nonrestoration of global and/or gauge symmetries. This has important cosmological consequences for supersymmetric GUTs and in particular it offers a solution of the monopole problem.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9811321,
title = {High Temperature Symmetry Breaking via Flat Directions},
author = {Borut Bajc and Goran Senjanovic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9811321},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 Postscript figure, some minor changes and references added