Published April 1, 2012 | Version v1
Journal article

Reheating and leptogenesis in a SUGRA inspired brane inflation

  • 1. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata 700 108 (India)
  • 2. Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn (Germany)

Description

We have studied extensively phenomenological implications in a specific model of brane inflation driven by background supergravity (Choudhury and Pal, 2011) , via thermal history of the universe and leptogenesis pertaining to the particle physics phenomenology of the early universe. Using the one loop corrected inflationary potential we have investigated for the analytical expression as well as the numerical estimation for brane reheating temperature for standard model particles. This results in some novel features of reheating from this type of inflation which have serious implications in the production of heavy Majorana neutrinos needed for leptogenesis through the reheating temperature. We have also derived the expressions for the gravitino abundance during reheating and radiation dominated era. We have further estimated different parameters at the epoch of phase transition and revealed their salient features. At the end we have explicitly given an estimate of the amount of CP violation through the effective CP phase which is related to baryon asymmetry as well as gravitino dark matter abundance.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.12.006

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.12.006;
arXiv
arXiv:1108.5676v3;
PII
S0550-3213(11)00692-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
857
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 85-100
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

Optional Information

Copyright
Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.