| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 95, 2015
3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics
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| Article Number | 03023 | |
| Number of page(s) | 17 | |
| Section | Plenary | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159503023 | |
| Published online | 29 May 2015 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159503023
Gravitino condensates in the early universe and inflation
1 King’s College London, Department of Physics, Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Strand London WC2R 2LS, UK
2 CERN, Physics Department-Theory Division, CH 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland.
a e-mail: Nikolaos.Mavromatos@kcl.ac.uk
Published online: 29 May 2015
We review work on the formation of gravitino condensates via the super-Higgs effect in the early Universe. This is a scenario for both inflating the early universe and breaking local super-symmetry (supergravity), entirely independent of any coupling to external matter. The goldstino mode associated with the breaking of (global) super-symmetry is “eaten” by the gravitino field, which becomes massive (via its own vacuum condensation) and breaks the local supersymmetry (supergravity) dynamically. The most natural association of gravitino condensates with inflation proceeds in an indirect way, via a Starobinsky-inflation-type phase. The higher-order curvature corrections of the (quantum) effective action of gravitino condensates induced by integrating out massive gravitino degrees of freedom in a curved space-time background, in the broken-supergravity phase, are responsible for inducing a scalar mode which inflates the Universe. The scenario is in agreement with Planck data phenomenology in a natural and phenomenologically-relevant range of parameters, namely Grand-Unified-Theory values for the super-symmetry breaking energy scale and dynamically-induced gravitino mass.
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