Low-scale Inflation and Supersymmetry Breaking in Racetrack Models

Understand

In many moduli stabilization schemes in string theory, the scale of inflation appears to be of the same order as the scale of supersymmetry breaking.

• For low-scale supersymmetry breaking, therefore, the scale of inflation should also be low, unless this correlation is avoided in specific models.
• We explore such a low-scale inflationary scenario in a racetrack model with a single modulus in type IIB string theory.
• Inflation occurs near a point of inflection in the K\"ahler modulus potential.