FD-Term Hybrid Inflation with Electroweak-Scale Lepton Number Violation
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چکیده
We study F -term hybrid inflation in a novel supersymmetric extension of the SM with a subdominant Fayet–Iliopoulos D-term. We call this particular form of inflation, in short, FD-term hybrid inflation. The proposed model ties the μ-parameter of the MSSM to an SO(3)-symmetric Majorana massmN , through the vacuum expectation value of the inflaton field. The late decays of the ultraheavy particles associated with the extra U(1) gauge group, which are abundantly produced during the preheating epoch, could lower the reheat temperature even up to 1 TeV, thereby avoiding the gravitino overproduction problem. The baryon asymmetry in the Universe can be explained by thermal electroweak-scale resonant leptogenesis, in a way independent of any pre-existing leptonor baryon-number abundance. Further cosmological and particle-physics implications of the FD-term hybrid model are briefly discussed. PACS numbers: 98.80.Cq, 12.60.Jv, 11.30Pb
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