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Reheating processes after Starobinsky inflation in old-minimal supergravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study reheating processes and its cosmological consequences in the Starobinsky model embedded in the old-minimal supergravity. First, we consider minimal coupling between the gravity and matter sectors in the higher curvature theory, and transform it to the equivalent standard supergravity coupled to additional matter superfields. We then discuss characteristic decay modes of the inflaton and the reheating temperature TRT_{\rm R}. Considering a simple model of supersymmetry breaking sector, we estimate gravitino abundance from inflaton decay, and obtain limits on the masses of gravitino and supersymmetry breaking field. We find TR1.0×109T_{\rm R}\simeq 1.0\times10^9 GeV and the allowed range of gravitino mass as 10410^4 GeV m3/2105\lesssim m_{3/2} \lesssim 10^5 GeV, assuming anomaly-induced decay into the gauge sector as the dominant decay channel.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6746,
  title  = {Reheating processes after Starobinsky inflation in old-minimal supergravity},
  author = {Takahiro Terada and Yuki Watanabe and Yusuke Yamada and Jun'ichi Yokoyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6746},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

24 pages, 1 figure, appendix added for clarification, typos fixed, results unchanged, version accepted in JHEP

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