Solving the ?-problem in hybrid inflation with Heisenberg symmetry and stabilized modulus
Solving the ?-problem in hybrid inflation with Heisenberg symmetry and stabilized modulus
We propose a class of models in which the ?-problem of supersymmetric hybrid inflation is resolved using a Heisenberg symmetry, where the associated modulus field is stabilized and made heavy with the help of the large vacuum energy during inflation without any fine-tuning. The proposed class of models is well motivated both from string theory considerations, since it includes the commonly encountered case of no-scale supergravity Kähler potential, and from the perspective of particle physics since a natural candidate for the inflaton in this class of models is the right-handed sneutrino which is massless during the inflationary epoch, and subsequently acquires a large mass at the end of inflation. We study a specific example motivated by sneutrino hybrid inflation with no-scale supergravity in some detail, and show that the spectral index may lie within the latest WMAP range, while the tensor-to-scalar ratio is very small.
cosmology of theories beyond the SM, inflation, physics of the early universe
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Antusch, Stefan
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Bastero-Gil, Mar
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Dutta, Koushik
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King, Steve F.
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Kostka, Philipp M.
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January 2009
Antusch, Stefan
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Bastero-Gil, Mar
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Dutta, Koushik
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King, Steve F.
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Kostka, Philipp M.
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Antusch, Stefan, Bastero-Gil, Mar, Dutta, Koushik, King, Steve F. and Kostka, Philipp M.
(2009)
Solving the ?-problem in hybrid inflation with Heisenberg symmetry and stabilized modulus.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2009 (1), .
(doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2009/01/040).
Abstract
We propose a class of models in which the ?-problem of supersymmetric hybrid inflation is resolved using a Heisenberg symmetry, where the associated modulus field is stabilized and made heavy with the help of the large vacuum energy during inflation without any fine-tuning. The proposed class of models is well motivated both from string theory considerations, since it includes the commonly encountered case of no-scale supergravity Kähler potential, and from the perspective of particle physics since a natural candidate for the inflaton in this class of models is the right-handed sneutrino which is massless during the inflationary epoch, and subsequently acquires a large mass at the end of inflation. We study a specific example motivated by sneutrino hybrid inflation with no-scale supergravity in some detail, and show that the spectral index may lie within the latest WMAP range, while the tensor-to-scalar ratio is very small.
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Published date: January 2009
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cosmology of theories beyond the SM, inflation, physics of the early universe
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