Non-perturbative moduli superpotential with positive exponents

TL;DR

This paper explores non-perturbative moduli superpotentials with positive exponents, revealing complex scalar potential structures with multiple minima, and discusses their implications for cosmology and particle physics, including inflation and supersymmetry breaking.

Contribution

It introduces and analyzes superpotentials with positive exponential terms, a novel feature that impacts the structure of scalar potentials and their cosmological and phenomenological applications.

Findings

Scalar potentials have multiple local minima with high barriers.

Positive exponential terms can facilitate inflation models.

Implications for avoiding the overshooting problem in cosmology.

Abstract

We study non-perturbative moduli superpotentials with positive exponents, i.e. the form like $Ae^{aT}$ with a positive constant $a$ and the modulus $T$. These effects can be generated, e.g., by D-branes which have negative RR charge of lower dimensional D-brane. The scalar potentials including such terms have a quite rich structure. There are several local minima with different potential energies and a high barrier, whose height is of ${\cal O}(M_p^4)$. We discuss their implications from the viewpoints of cosmology and particle phenomenology, e.g. the realization of inflation models, avoiding the overshooting problem. This type of potentials would be useful to realize the inflation and low-energy supersymmetry breaking.