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Gravitino Dark matter, Non Thermal Leptogenesis and Low reheating temperature in No-scale Higgs Inflation

Waqas Ahmed·Athanasios Karozas·George K. Leontaris
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We revisit Higgs inflation in the framework of a minimal extension of the Standard Model gauge symmetry by a $U(1)_{B-L}$ factor. Various aspects are taken into account with particular focus on the role of the supersymmetry breaking (SUSY) scale and the cosmological constraints associated with the gravitino. The scalar potential of the model is considered in the context of no-scale supergravity consisting of the F-part constructed from the K\"ahler function, the D-terms and soft SUSY contributions. We investigate several limiting cases and by varying the SUSY scale from a few TeV up to intermediate energies, for a spectral index around $n_s\sim 0.9655$ and reheating temperature $T_r\le 10^{9}$ GeV we find that the value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio ranges from $r\approx 10^{-3}$ to $10^{-2}$. Furthermore, it is shown that for certain regions of the parameter space the gravitino can live sufficiently long and as such is a potential candidate for a dark matter component. In general, the inflationary scenario is naturally implemented and it is consistent with non-thermal leptogenesis whereas the dominant decay channel of the inflaton yields right-handed neutrinos. Other aspects of cosmology and particle physics phenomenology are briefly discussed. Finally, we investigate the case where the inflaton is initially relaxed in a false minimum and estimate its probability to decay to the true vacuum.

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Waqas Ahmed, Athanasios Karozas, George K. Leontaris. 2021-04-09. Gravitino Dark matter, Non Thermal Leptogenesis and Low reheating temperature in No-scale Higgs Inflation. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.104.055025

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