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Large Scale Structure and Supersymmetric Inflation without Fine Tuning

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-05-12 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We explore constraints on the spectral index nn of density fluctuations and the neutrino energy density fraction ΩHDM\Omega_{HDM}, employing data from a variety of large scale observations. The best fits occur for n1n\approx 1 and ΩHDM0.150.30\Omega_{HDM} \approx 0.15 - 0.30, over a range of Hubble constants 406040-60 km s1^{-1} Mpc1^{-1}. We present a new class of inflationary models based on realistic supersymmetric grand unified theories which do not have the usual `fine tuning' problems. The amplitude of primordial density fluctuations, in particular, is found to be proportional to (MX/MP)2(M_X /M_P)^2, where MX(MP)M_X (M_P) denote the GUT (Planck) scale, which is reminiscent of cosmic strings! The spectral index n=0.98n = 0.98, in excellent agreement with the observations provided the dark matter is a mixture of `cold' and `hot' components.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9406319,
  title  = {Large Scale Structure and Supersymmetric Inflation without Fine Tuning},
  author = {G. Dvali and Q. Shafi and R. Schaefer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9406319},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

LaTEX, 14 pp. + 1 postscript figure appended

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