Non-minimal sneutrino inflation, Peccei-Quinn phase transition and non-thermal leptogenesis

Journal Article · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2011 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2011/02/019· OSTI ID:22275486

Pallis, C.

We consider a phenomenological extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model which incorporates non-minimal chaotic inflation, driven by a quartic potential associated with the lightest right-handed sneutrino. Inflation is followed by a Peccei-Quinn phase transition based on renormalizable superpotential terms, which resolves the strong CP and μ problems of the minimal supersymmetric standard model provided that one related parameter of the superpotential is somewhat small. Baryogenesis occurs via non-thermal leptogenesis, which is realized by the inflaton decay. Confronting our scenario with the current observational data on the inflationary observables, the baryon assymetry of the universe, the gravitino limit on the reheating temperature and the upper bound on the light neutrino masses, we constrain the effective Yukawa coupling involved in the decay of the inflaton to relatively small values and the inflaton mass to values lower than 10{sup 12}GeV.

• OSTI ID: 22275486
• Journal Information: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 02 Vol. 2011; ISSN 1475-7516
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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CHAOS THEORY
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CP INVARIANCE
INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE
INFLATONS
NEUTRINOS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
RENORMALIZATION
SPARTICLES
STANDARD MODEL
SUPERSYMMETRY
UNIVERSE
VISIBLE RADIATION
YUKAWA POTENTIAL