English

The Polonyi Problem and Upper bound on Inflation Scale in Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We reconsider the Polonyi problem in gravity-mediation models for supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking. It has been argued that there is no problem in the dynamical SUSY breaking scenarios, since the Polonyi field acquires a sufficiently large mass of the order of the dynamical SUSY-breaking scale Lamada_{SUSY}. However, we find that a linear term of the Polonyi field in the Kahler potential brings us back to the Polonyi problem, unless the inflation scale is sufficiently low, H_{inf} < 10^{8} GeV, or the reheating temperature is extremely low, T_{R} < 100 GeV. Here, this Polonyi problem is more serious than the original one, since the Polonyi field mainly decays into a pair of gravitinos.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0605252,
  title  = {The Polonyi Problem and Upper bound on Inflation Scale in Supergravity},
  author = {M. Ibe and Y. Shinbara and T. T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0605252},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

17 pages, 1 figure, minor corrections, published version

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