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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 12/10/1998 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Physical review letters |
Issue number | 15 |
Volume | 81 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 3071-3074 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
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].