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Supersymmetric Majoron inflation

Supersymmetric Majoron inflation
Supersymmetric Majoron inflation
We propose supersymmetric Majoron inflation in which the Majoron field $\Phi$ responsible for generating right-handed neutrino masses may also be suitable for giving low scale "hilltop" inflation, with a discrete lepton number $Z_N$ spontaneously broken at the end of inflation, while avoiding the domain wall problem. In the framework of non-minimal supergravity, we show that a successful spectral index can result with small running together with small tensor modes. We show that a range of heaviest right-handed neutrino masses can be generated, $m_N\sim 10^1-10^{16}$ GeV, consistent with the constraints from reheating and domain walls.
hep-ph
1029-8479
King, Stephen F.
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Ludl, Patrick Otto
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King, Stephen F.
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Ludl, Patrick Otto
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King, Stephen F. and Ludl, Patrick Otto (2017) Supersymmetric Majoron inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1703. (doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2017)174).

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We propose supersymmetric Majoron inflation in which the Majoron field $\Phi$ responsible for generating right-handed neutrino masses may also be suitable for giving low scale "hilltop" inflation, with a discrete lepton number $Z_N$ spontaneously broken at the end of inflation, while avoiding the domain wall problem. In the framework of non-minimal supergravity, we show that a successful spectral index can result with small running together with small tensor modes. We show that a range of heaviest right-handed neutrino masses can be generated, $m_N\sim 10^1-10^{16}$ GeV, consistent with the constraints from reheating and domain walls.

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Accepted/In Press date: 24 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 March 2017
Published date: 31 March 2017
Additional Information: 27 pages, 3 figures
Keywords: hep-ph
Organisations: Theory Group

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Local EPrints ID: 408296
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/408296
ISSN: 1029-8479
PURE UUID: 3579cc2f-df9e-49b3-89b8-695d640bf393

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Date deposited: 19 May 2017 04:02
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 13:56

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Author: Stephen F. King
Author: Patrick Otto Ludl

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