Inflation and High-Scale Supersymmetry with an EeV Gravitino
Abstract
We consider inflation and supersymmetry breaking in the context of a minimal model of supersymmetry in which the only "low" energy remnant of supersymmetry is the gravitino with a mass of order an EeV. In this theory, the supersymmetry breaking scale is above the inflaton mass, m ~ 3 x 10^{13} GeV, as are all sfermion and gaugino masses. In particular, for a no-scale formulation of Starobinsky-like inflation using the volume modulus T, we show that inflation can be accommodated even when the supersymmetry breaking scale is very large. Reheating is driven through a gravitational coupling to the two Higgs doublets and is enhanced by the large mu-parameter. This leads to gravitino cold dark matter where the mass is constrained to be in the range 0.1 EeV EeV.
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@article{arxiv.1710.07341,
title = {Inflation and High-Scale Supersymmetry with an EeV Gravitino},
author = {Emilian Dudas and Tony Gherghetta and Yann Mambrini and Keith A. Olive},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07341},
year = {2018}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures