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Intermediate scale supersymmetric inflation, matter and dark energy

Focus on Supersymmetry in Physics

G L Kane1 and S F King2

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Part of Focus on Supersymmetry in Physics

We consider supersymmetric inflation models in which inflation occurs at an intermediate scale and which provide a solution to the µ problem and the strong CP problem. Such models are particularly attractive since inflation, baryogenesis and the relic abundance of cold dark matter are all related by a set of parameters which also affect particle physics collider phenomena, neutrino masses and the strong CP problem. For such models the natural situation is a universe containing matter composed of baryons, massive neutrinos, lightest superpartner cold dark matter and axions. The present-day relic abundances of these different forms of matter are (in principle) calculable from the supersymmetric inflation model together with a measurement of the cosmic microwave background temperature and the Hubble constant. From these relic abundances one can deduce the amount of the present-day dark energy density.


PACS

95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological)

98.80.Es Observational cosmology (including Hubble constant, distance scale, cosmological constant, early Universe, etc)

12.10.Dm Unified theories and models of strong and electroweak interactions

95.30.Cq Elementary particle processes

98.70.Vc Background radiations

11.30.Er Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 1 (November 2001)

Received 28 September 2001, in final form 30 October 2001

Published 30 November 2001



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