Published August 15, 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

Chaotic inflation and baryogenesis in supergravity

  • 1. Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, 16146 Genova (Italy)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980 (Japan)
  • 4. Uji Research Center, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Uji, 611 (Japan)

Description

We propose a Kaehler potential in supergravity which successfully accommodates chaotic inflation. This model can have a large gravitino mass without giving a large mass to squarks and sleptons, and thus is free from both the gravitino problem and entropy crisis. In this model baryogenesis takes places naturally, identifying the inflaton with a right-handed sneutrino with its mass M congruent 1013 GeV, which is consistent with the COBE data and the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein solution to the solar neutrino problem. The model can also accommodate the matter content appropriate for the mixed dark matter scenario

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
50
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. R2356-R2360.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ