Challenges for large-field inflation and moduli stabilization

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2015)058MaRDI QIDQ2635249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucien Heurtier, Alexander Westphal, Clemens Wieck, Martin Wolfgang Winkler, W. Buchmüller, E. Dudas

Publication date 31 May 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05812

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMsupergravity modelssuperstring vacuasupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supergravity (83E50) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We analyze the interplay between K"ahler moduli stabilization and chaotic inflation in supergravity. While heavy moduli decouple from inflation in the supersymmetric limit, supersymmetry breaking generically introduces non-decoupling effects. These lead to inflation driven by a soft mass term, $m_{v}arph{i}^{2}simm{m}_{3/2}$, where $m$ is a supersymmetric mass parameter. This scenario needs no stabilizer field, but the stability of moduli during inflation imposes a large supersymmetry breaking scale, $m_{3/2}ggH$, and a careful choice of initial conditions. This is illustrated in three prominent examples of moduli stabilization: KKLT stabilization, K"ahler Uplifting, and the Large Volume Scenario. Remarkably, all models have a universal effective inflaton potential which is flattened compared to quadratic inflation. Hence, they share universal predictions for the CMB observables, in particular a lower bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $rgtrsim0.05$.

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