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Inflation and High-Scale Supersymmetry with an EeV Gravitino

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-01-03 v1

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 m3/21000\lesssim m_{3/2} \lesssim 1000 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