Low-scale inflation and supersymmetry breaking in racetrack models Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In many moduli stabilization schemes in string theory, the scale of inflation appears to be of the same order as the scale of supersymmetry breaking. For low-scale supersymmetry breaking, therefore, the scale of inflation should also be low, unless this correlation is avoided in specific models. We explore such a low-scale inflationary scenario in a racetrack model with a single modulus in type IIB string theory. Inflation occurs near a point of inflection in the Khler modulus potential. Obtaining acceptable cosmological density perturbations leads to the introduction of magnetized D7-branes sourcing nonperturbative superpotentials. The gravitino mass, m3/2, is chosen to be around 30 TeV, so that gravitinos that are produced in the inflaton decay do not affect big-bang nucleosynthesis. Supersymmetry is communicated to the visible sector by a mixture of anomaly and modulus mediation. We find that the two sources contribute equally to the gaugino masses, while scalar masses are decided mainly by anomaly contribution. This happens as a result of the low scale of inflation and can be probed at the LHC. 2010 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

author list (cited authors)

  • Allahverdi, R., Dutta, B., & Sinha, K.

citation count

  • 15

complete list of authors

  • Allahverdi, Rouzbeh||Dutta, Bhaskar||Sinha, Kuver

publication date

  • April 2010