TY - JOUR
T1 - Can MSSM particle be the inflaton?
AU - Kasuya, Shinta
AU - Moroi, Takeo
AU - Takahashi, Fuminobu
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank T. Yanagida for noticing us the earlier work on the similar subject. F.T. is grateful to M. Kawasaki for useful discussion. The work of T.M. is supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan, No. 15540247. F.T. thanks the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for financial support.
PY - 2004/7/22
Y1 - 2004/7/22
N2 - We consider the possibility of using one of the D-flat directions in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) as the inflaton. We show that the flat direction consisting of (first generation) left- and right-handed up-squarks as well as the up-type Higgs boson may play the role of the inflaton if dominant part of the up-quark mass is radiatively generated from supersymmetric loop diagrams. We also point out that, if the R-parity violating Yukawa coupling is of O(10-7), R-odd D-flat directions may be another possible candidate of the inflaton. Such inflation models using D-flat directions in the MSSM are not only testable with collider experiments but also advantageous to resolve the problem how the inflaton reheats the Universe.
AB - We consider the possibility of using one of the D-flat directions in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) as the inflaton. We show that the flat direction consisting of (first generation) left- and right-handed up-squarks as well as the up-type Higgs boson may play the role of the inflaton if dominant part of the up-quark mass is radiatively generated from supersymmetric loop diagrams. We also point out that, if the R-parity violating Yukawa coupling is of O(10-7), R-odd D-flat directions may be another possible candidate of the inflaton. Such inflation models using D-flat directions in the MSSM are not only testable with collider experiments but also advantageous to resolve the problem how the inflaton reheats the Universe.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.071
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.04.071
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3242728317
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 593
SP - 33
EP - 41
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 1-4
ER -