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Reheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-29 v2

Abstract

In theories with multiple vacua, reheating to a temperature greater than the height of a barrier can stimulate transitions from a desirable metastable vacuum to a lower energy state. We discuss the constraints this places on various theories and demonstrate that in a class of supersymmetric models this transition does not occur even for arbitrarily high reheating temperature.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0611006,
  title  = {Reheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models},
  author = {Nathaniel J. Craig and Patrick J. Fox and Jay G. Wacker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0611006},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

21 pages, 1 figure. Typos corrected and some references added

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