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arxiv: hep-ph/0402187 · v2 · submitted 2004-02-18 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph· gr-qc· hep-ex

Could the next generation of cosmology experiments exclude supergravity?

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keywords excludeexperimentsgenerationinflationmassnextsupergravityabundance
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Gravitinos are expected to be produced in any local supersymmetric model. Using their abundance prediction as a function of the reheating energy scale, it is argued that the next generation of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments could exclude supergravity or strongly favor "thermal-like" inflation models if B mode polarized radiation were detected. Galactic cosmic--ray production by evaporating primordial black holes is also investigated as a way of constraining the Hubble mass at the end of inflation. Subsequent limits on the gravitino mass and on the related grand unification parameters are derived.

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