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Supersymmetric standard model inflation in the Planck era

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-05-30 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We propose a cosmological inflationary scenario based on the supergravity-embedded Standard Model supplemented by the right-handed neutrinos. We show that with an appropriate Kahler potential the L-H_u direction gives rise to successful inflation that is similar to the recently proposed gravitationally coupled Higgs inflation model but is free from the unitarity problem. The mass scale MRM_R of the right-handed neutrinos is subject to the seesaw relation and the present 2-σ\sigma constraint from the WMAP7-BAO-H_0 data sets its lower bound MRM_R\gtrsim 1 TeV. Generation of the baryon asymmetry is naturally implemented in this model. We expect within a few years new observational data from the Planck satellite clearly discriminates this model from other existing inflationary models arising from the same Lagrangian, and possibly yields stringent constraints on MRM_R.

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@article{arxiv.1112.2391,
  title  = {Supersymmetric standard model inflation in the Planck era},
  author = {Masato Arai and Shinsuke Kawai and Nobuchika Okada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2391},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, essentially the published version