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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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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.
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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