Anomaly mediation and cosmology

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2011)115zbMATH Open1298.81434arXiv1101.5622OpenAlexW3098978923WikidataQ63354206 ScholiaQ63354206MaRDI QIDQ466613FDOQ466613

Authors: A. Basbøll, M. Hindmarsh, D. R. T. Jones 

Publication date: 27 October 2014

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

Abstract: We consider an extension of the MSSM wherein anomaly mediation is the source of supersymmetry breaking, and the tachyonic slepton problem is solved by a gauged U(1) symmetry, which is broken at high energies in a manner preserving supersymmetry, thereby also facilitating the see-saw mechanism for neutrino masses and a natural source for the Higgs mu-term. We show that these favourable outcomes can occur both in the presence and the absence of a large Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) D-term associated with the new U(1). We explore the cosmological consequences of the model, showing that it naturally produces a period of hybrid inflation, terminating in the production of cosmic strings. In spite of the presence of a U(1) (even with an FI term), inflation is effected by the F-term, with a D-flat tree potential (the FI term, if present, being cancelled by non-zero squark and slepton fields). Calculating the 1-loop corrections to the inflaton potential, we estimate the constraints on the parameters of the model from Cosmic Microwave Background data. We will see that a consequence of these constraints is that the Higgs mu-term necessarily small. We briefly discuss the mechanisms for baryogenesis via conventional leptogenesis, the out-of-equilibrium production of neutrinos from the cosmic strings, or the Affleck-Dine mechanism. Cosmic string decays also boost the relic density of dark matter above the low value normally obtained in AMSB scenarios.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5622

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zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMsupersymmetric gauge theorysupersymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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