Vacuum sampling in the landscape during inflation

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.99.161302MaRDI QIDQ3107744zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Saswat Sarangi, Gary Shiu, Hooman Davoudiasl

Publication date 26 December 2011

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0611232

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We consider the phenomenological consequences of sampling multiple vacua during inflation motivated by an enormous landscape. A generic consequence of this sampling is the formation of domain walls, characterized by the scale $mu$ of the barriers that partition the accessed vacua. We find that the success of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) implies $mugsim10$ TeV, as long as the sampled vacua have a non-degeneracy larger than $calO({mMeV}^{m4})$. Otherwise, the walls will dominate and eventually form black holes that must reheat the universe sufficiently for BBN to take place; in this case, we obtain $mugsim10^{-5}{M}_P$. These black holes are not allowed to survive and contribute to cosmic dark matter density.

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