Thermal inflation, baryogenesis and axions

TL;DR

This paper explores a minimal supersymmetric model extension that naturally explains thermal inflation, baryogenesis, and dark matter composition, focusing on axions and axinos with specific mass and decay parameters.

Contribution

It introduces a minimal Peccei-Quinn symmetric model that simultaneously addresses thermal inflation, baryogenesis, and dark matter abundance with specific parameter constraints.

Findings

Axino/flatino can be the lightest supersymmetric particle with mass 1-10 GeV.

Dark matter abundance is optimized at axino mass ~1 GeV and decay constant ~10^{11}-10^{12} GeV.

Baryon abundance naturally aligns with observations for certain parameter values.

Abstract

In a previous paper, we proposed a simple extension of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model which gives rise to thermal inflation and baryogenesis in a natural and remarkably consistent way. In this paper, we consider the $\lambda_\phi = 0$ special case of our model, which is the minimal way to incorporate a Peccei-Quinn symmetry. The axino/flatino becomes the lightest supersymmetric particle with $m_\axino \sim 1$ to $10 \GeV$ and is typically over-produced during the flaton decay. Interestingly though, the dark matter abundance is minimized for $m_\axino \sim 1 \GeV$, $f_a \sim 10^{11}$ to $10^{12} \GeV$ and $|\mu| \sim 400 \GeV$ to $2 \TeV$ at an abundance coincident with the observed abundance and with significant amounts of both axions and axinos. Futhermore, for these values the baryon abundance naturally matches the observed abundance.