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Supersymmetric D-term inflation and B-ball baryogenesis

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>12/10/1998
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number15
Volume81
Number of pages4
Pages (from-to)3071-3074
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We consider the B-ball cosmology of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in the context of D-term inflation models where the reheating temperature is determined by the Affleck-Dine mechanism to be of the order of 1 GeV. We show that such a low reheating temperature can arise quite naturally as the result of a symmetry which is required to maintain the flatness of the inflaton potential. In this case the B-balls will decay well after the freeze-out temperature of the lightest supersymmetric particle, allowing baryons and cold dark matter to originate primarily from B-ball decays. [S0031-9007(98)07324-4].