Observable r, Gravitino Dark Matter, and Non-thermal Leptogenesis in No-Scale Supergravity

TL;DR

This paper explores a no-scale supergravity inflation model that naturally solves the monopole problem, predicts observable gravitational waves, and provides a viable dark matter candidate through gravitinos, consistent with current experimental constraints.

Contribution

It presents a shifted hybrid inflation model within no-scale SU(5) supergravity that aligns with recent cosmological data and offers a realistic scenario for reheating, leptogenesis, and gravitino dark matter.

Findings

Predicts scalar spectral tilt $n_s$ compatible with Planck data

Forecasts a tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ around 0.0015

Proton decay lifetime exceeds current experimental limits

Abstract

We analyse the shifted hybrid inflation in a no-scale SU(5) model with supersymmetry, which naturally circumvents the monopole problem. The no-scale framework is derivable as the effective field theory of the supersymmetric (SUSY) compactifications of string theory, and it yields a flat potential with no anti-de Sitter vacua, resolving the $\eta$ problem. The model predicts a scalar spectral tilt $n_s$ compatible with the most recent measurements by the Planck satellite, while also accommodating observable values of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ ($\sim 0.0015$), potentially measurable by the near-future experiments. Moreover, the proton decay lifetime in the presence of the dimension-5 operators is found to lie above the current limit imposed by the Super-Kamiokande experiment. A realistic scenario of reheating and non-thermal leptogenesis is invoked, wherein the reheating temperature $T_r$ lies in the $\{2 \times 10^6 \lesssim T_r \lesssim 2 \times 10^9\}$ GeV range, and at the same time the gravitino makes a viable dark matter (DM) candidate.