Higgs Inflation, Reheating and Gravitino Production in No-Scale Supersymmetric GUTs [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02202


We extend our previous study of supersymmetric Higgs inflation in the context of no-scale supergravity and grand unification, to include models based on the flipped SU(5) and the Pati-Salam group. Like the previous SU(5) GUT model, these yield a class of inflation models whose inflation predictions interpolate between those of the quadratic chaotic inflation and Starobinsky-like inflation, while also avoiding tension with proton decay limits. We further analyse the reheating process in these models, and derive the number of $e$-folds, which is independent of the reheating temperature. We derive the corresponding predictions for the scalar tilt and the tensor-to-scalar ratio in cosmic microwave background perturbations, and also discuss gravitino production following inflation.

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J. Ellis, H. He and Z. Xianyu
Thu, 9 Jun 16
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Comments: 21 pages, 3 figures