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Instant uplifted inflation: a solution for a tension between inflation and SUSY breaking scale
A bstractThe Hubble parameter during an inflationary era must be smaller than the gravitino mass if moduli fields are stabilized by the Kachru-Kallosh-Linde-Trivedi mechanism. This condition represents a difficulty to combine low scale SUSY breaking and high scale inflation. We propose a simple mechanism which can naturally separate the inflation scale from the SUSY breaking scale today.
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Inflation in supergravity without Kähler potential
We propose a new class of inflation models in supergravity with higher derivative terms. In those models, the K\"ahler potential does not contain the inflaton multiplet, but a supersymmetric derivative term does. In the models, inflation is effectively driven by a single scalar field with a standard kinetic term and a scalar potential. Remarkably, the so-called $\eta$ problem does not exist in our models.
119118937
Impacts of non-geometric moduli on effective theory of 5D supergravity
A bstract5D supergravity generically has moduli other than the radion that belong to 5D vector multiplets. We summarize the impacts of such non-geometric moduli on 4D effective theory of 5D supergravity on S1/Z2. We mainly discuss the structure of the effective Kähler potential including the one-loop quantum corrections. As an illustrative example, we construct a model in which the size of the extra dimension is stabilized at an exponentially large value compared to the Planck length, which is similar to the LARGE volume scenario in string theory.
119278125
SUSY flavor structure of generic 5D supergravity models
We perform a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the SUSY flavor structure of generic 5D supergravity models on S1/Z2 with multiple Z2-odd vector multiplets that generate multiple moduli. The SUSY flavor problem can be avoided due to contact terms in the 4D effective Kähler potential peculiar to the multi-moduli case. A detailed phenomenological analysis is provided based on an illustrative model.
119288533
Reheating processes after Starobinsky inflation in old-minimal supergravity
A bstractWe study reheating processes and its cosmological consequences in the Starobinsky model embedded in the old-minimal supergravity. First, we consider minimal coupling between the gravity and matter sectors in the higher curvature theory, and transform it to the equivalent standard supergravity coupled to additional matter superfields. We then discuss characteristic decay modes of the inflaton and the reheating temperature TR. Considering a simple model of supersymmetry breaking sector, we estimate gravitino abundance from inflaton decay, and obtain limits on the masses of gravitino and supersymmetry breaking field. We find TR ≃ 1.0 × 109 GeV and the allowed range of gravitino mass as 104 GeV ≲ m3/2 ≲ 105 GeV, assuming anomaly-induced decay into the gauge sector as the dominant decay channel.
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Illustrating SUSY breaking effects on various inflation mechanisms
A bstractWe consider the supersymmetry breaking effects on typical inflation models with different types of Kähler potential. The critical size of supersymmetry-breaking scale, above which the flatness of the inflaton potential is spoiled, drastically changes model by model. We present the universal description of such effects in terms of a field-dependent scaling factor by which gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking terms are suppressed or enhanced, based on the conformal supergravity framework. Such a description would be useful when we estimate them in constructing supersymmetric models of particle cosmology.
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SUSY - QCD corrections to top and bottom squark decays into Higgs bosons
We calculate the $\mathcal{O}({\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s})$ SUSY-QCD corrections to the widths of top and bottom squark decays into Higgs bosons within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We give the complete analytical formulas, paying particular attention to the on-shell renormalization of the soft SUSY-breaking parameters. We also perform a detailed numerical analysis of both top and bottom squark decays into all Higgs bosons ${h}^{0},$ ${H}^{0},$ ${A}^{0},$ and ${H}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}.$ We find that the SUSY-QCD corrections are significant, mostly negative, and of the order of a few ten percent.
2040672
Radiative corrections to a supersymmetric relation: A new approach
Recently it has been realized that the production and decay processes of charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons receive corrections which grow like logm{sub {tilde q}} for large m{sub {tilde q}}. In this paper we calculate the chargino pair production cross section at e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} colliders with quark-squark loop corrections. We introduce a novel formulation, where the one-loop amplitude is reorganized into two parts. One part is expressed in terms of the {open_quotes}effective{close_quotes} chargino coupling {bar g}{sub e{tilde {nu}}{tilde W}} and mixing matrices U{sup P},V{sup P}, and includes all O(logm{sub {tilde q}}) corrections, while the other decouples for large m{sub {tilde q}}. The form of the one-loop cross section then becomes physically transparent. Our formulation can be easily extended to other loops and processes. Numerically, we find significant corrections due to the effective t-channel coupling {bar g}{sub e{tilde {nu}}{tilde W}}, for gaugino-like charginos. In the mixed region, where the chargino has large gaugino and Higgsino components, the corrections due to (U{sup P},V{sup P}) are also significant. Our numerical results disagree with a previous calculation. We reexamine previous studies of the determination of {bar g}{sub e{tilde {nu}}{tilde W}} through the measurement of the chargino production cross section. We point out that amore » previous study, which claimed that the measurement suffers large systematic errors, was performed at a {open_quotes}pessimistic{close_quotes} point in MSSM parameter space. We provide reasons why the systematic errors are not a limiting factor for generic parameter choices. {copyright} {ital 1998} {ital The American Physical Society}« less
2853034
Two-loop renormalization of tan beta and its gauge dependence
Renormalization of two-loop divergent corrections to the vacuum expectation values (v_1, v_2) of the two Higgs doublets in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, and their ratio $\tan\beta=v_2/v_1$, is discussed for general R_{\xi} gauge fixings. When the renormalized (v_1, v_2) are defined to give the minimum of the loop-corrected effective potential, it is shown that, beyond the one-loop level, the dimensionful parameters in the R_{\xi} gauge fixing term generate gauge dependence of the renormalized $\tan\beta$. Additional shifts of the Higgs fields are necessary to realize the gauge-independent renormalization of $\tan\beta$.
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Low-scale anomalous U(1) and decoupling solution to supersymmetric flavor problem
Abstract Supersymmetric standard models where the ultraviolet cut-off scale is only a few orders of magnitude higher than the electroweak scale are considered. Phenomenological consequences of this class of models are expected to be very different from, for example, the conventional supergravity scenario. We apply this idea to a model with an anomalous U(1) gauge group and construct a viable model in which some difficulties of the decoupling solution to the supersymmetric flavor problem are ameliorated.
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Two-loop SUSY QCD correction to the gluino pole mass
We calculate the pole mass of the gluino as a function of the running parameters in the lagrangian, to O ( α s 2 ) in SUSY QCD. The correction shifts the pole mass from the running mass by typically 1–2 %. This shift can be larger than the expected accuracy of the mass determination at future colliders, and should be taken into account for precision studies of the SUSY breaking parameters. The effects of other corrections are breifly commented.