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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, LLe{\bf LLe}, and udd{\bf udd}, which are promising candidates for the inflaton. The model predicts more than 10310^3 e-foldings with an inflationary scale of HinfO(110)H_{\rm inf} \sim {\cal O}(1-10) GeV, provides a tilted spectrum 0.92ns10.92 \leq n_s \leq 1 with an amplitude of δH105\delta_H \sim 10^{-5} and a negligible tensor perturbations. It yields a lower bound 340\sim 340 GeV on the sparticle masses which is within the reach of LHC. There is no gravitino or moduli problem in this model.

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@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