Theory Seminar

DATE: 2006-06-20 11:00 - 12:00
PLACE: Kenkyu Honkan 2F Rm.220
TITLE: Gravitino Production from Heavy Moduli Decay and Cosmological Moduli Problem Revived
CONTACT: tsuda
SPEAKER: Shuntaro Nakamura  (Tohoku Univ.)
LANGUAGE: Japanese
ABSTRACT: The cosmological moduli problem for relatively heavy moduli fields is reinvestigated. For this purpose we examine the decay of a modulus field at a quantitative level. The modulus dominantly decays into gauge bosons and gauginos, provided that the couplings among them are not suppressed in the gauge kinetic function. Remarkably the modulus decay into a gravitino pair is unsuppressed generically, with a typical branching ratio of order 0.01. Such a large gravitino yield after the modulus decay causes cosmological difficulties. The constraint from the big-bang nucleosynthesis pushes up the gravitino mass above $10^5$ GeV. Furthermore to avoid the over-abundance of the stable neutralino lightest superparticles (LSPs), the gravitino must weigh more than about $10^6$ GeV for the wino-like LSP, and even more for other neutralino LSPs. This poses a stringent constraint on model building of low-energy supersymmetry.

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