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Starobinsky-Type B-L Higgs Inflation Leading Beyond MSSM

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-11-16 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Models of induced-gravity inflation are formulated within Supergravity employing as inflaton the Higgs field which leads to a spontaneous breaking of a U(1)_{B-L} symmetry at Mgut=2x10^16 GeV. We use a renormalizable superpotential, fixed by a U(1) R symmetry, and logarithmic or semi-logarithmic Kahler potentials with integer prefactors which exhibit a quadratic non-minimal coupling to gravity. We find inflationary solutions of Starobinsky type in accordance with the observations. The inflaton mass is predicted to be of the order of 10^13 GeV. The model can be nicely linked to MSSM offering an explanation of the magnitude of the mu parameter consistently with phenomenological data. Also it allows for baryogenesis via non-thermal leptogenesis, provided that the gravitino is heavier than about 10 TeV.

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@article{arxiv.2305.00523,
  title  = {Starobinsky-Type B-L Higgs Inflation Leading Beyond MSSM},
  author = {C. Pallis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00523},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Prepared for the Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2022 -- Conference: C22-08-28. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1804.07038