Gravitino production in a thermal Universe revisited

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dc.contributor.author Arya, Richa
dc.contributor.author Mahajan, Namit
dc.contributor.author Rangarajan, Raghavan
dc.date.accessioned 2016-08-20T07:16:37Z
dc.date.available 2016-08-20T07:16:37Z
dc.date.issued 2016-08
dc.identifier.citation Arya, Richa; Mahajan, Namit and Rangarajan, Raghavan, “Gravitino production in a thermal Universe revisited”, arXiv, Cornell University Library, DOI: arXiv:1608.03386, Aug. 2016. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03386
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.iitgn.ac.in/handle/123456789/2433
dc.description.abstract We study the production of spin 1/2 gravitinos in a thermal Universe. Taking into account supersymmetry breaking due to the finite thermal energy density of the Universe, there is a large enhancement in the cross section of production of these gravitino states. We consider gravitinos with zero temperature masses of 0.1 eV, 1 keV, 100 GeV and 30 TeV as representative of gauge mediated, gravity mediated and anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking scenarios. We find that the abundance of gravitinos produced in the early Universe is very high for gravitinos of mass 1 keV and 100 GeV. The gravitino abundances can be sufficiently suppressed if the reheat temperature is less than 100 GeV and $4\times10^4 \gev$ respectively. However such low reheat temperatures will rule out many models of baryogenesis including those via leptogenesis. en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility by Richa Arya, Namit Mahajan, Raghavan Rangarajan
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Cornell University Library en_US
dc.subject Cosmology en_US
dc.subject Nongalactic Astrophysics en_US
dc.title Gravitino production in a thermal Universe revisited en_US
dc.type Preprint en_US


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