2012

Supersymmetric Seesaw Inflation

Aulakh, Charanjit S., Garg, Ila

Understand

Supersymmetric Unified theories which incorporate a renormalizable Type I seesaw mechanism for small neutrino masses can also provide slow roll inflection point inflation along a flat direction associated with a gauge invariant combination of the Higgs, slepton and right handed sneutrino superfields.

  • Inflationary parameters are related to the Majorana and Dirac couplings responsible for neutrino masses with the scale of inflation set by a right-handed neutrino mass $M_{\nu^c} \sim 10^6-10^{12}$ GeV.
  • Tuning of the neutrino Dirac and Majorana superpotential couplings and soft Susy breaking parameters is required to enforce flatness of the inflationary potential.
  • In contrast to previous inflection point inflation models the cubic term is dominantly derived from superpotential couplings rather than soft A-terms.

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