Reheating and gravitino production in braneworld inflation
Abstract
We consider the constraints that can be imposed on a wide class of Inflation models in modified gravity scenarios in which the Friedmann equation is modified by the inclusion of terms, where is the total energy density. In particular we obtain the reheating temperature and gravitino abundance associated with the end of inflation. Whereas models of chaotic inflation and natural inflation can easily avoid the conventional gravitino overproduction problem, we show that supersymmetric hybrid inflation models (driven by both F and D-terms) do not work in the dominated era. We also study inflation driven by exponetial potentials in this modified background, and show that the gravitino production is suppressed enough to avoid there being a problem, although other conditions severely constrain these models.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0505149,
title = {Reheating and gravitino production in braneworld inflation},
author = {Edmund J. Copeland and Osamu Seto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0505149},
year = {2009}
}
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