MSSM flat direction inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We argue that all necessary ingredients for successful inflation are present in the flat directions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Out of many gauge invariant combinations of the squarks, sleptons and Higgses, there are two flat directions, , and , which are promising candidates for the inflaton. The model predicts more than e-foldings with an inflationary scale of GeV, provides a tilted spectrum with an amplitude of and a negligible tensor perturbations. It yields a lower bound GeV on the sparticle masses which is within the reach of LHC. There is no gravitino or moduli problem in this model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610180,
title = {MSSM flat direction inflation},
author = {Rouzbeh Allahverdi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610180},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Talk given at the IPM School and Conference on Lepton and Hadron Physics, Tehran, Iran, May 15-20, 2006