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Inflaton Decay through Supergravity Effects

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arxiv hep-ph/0607170 v2 pith:2TSK5LBV submitted 2006-07-14 hep-ph astro-phhep-th

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keywords inflatondecaybreakingeffectsexpectationmodelssupergravitysupersymmetry
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We point out that supergravity effects enable the inflaton to decay into all matter fields, including the visible and the supersymmetry breaking sectors, once the inflaton acquires a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value. The new decay processes have great impacts on cosmology; the reheating temperature is bounded below; the gravitinos are produced by the inflaton decay in a broad class of the dynamical supersymmetry breaking models. We derive the bounds on the inflaton mass and the vacuum expectation value, which severely constrain high-scale inflations such as the hybrid and chaotic inflation models.

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