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On inflation, cosmological constant, and SUSY breaking

Published 2 November 2016 , , Citation Andrei Linde JCAP11(2016)002 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/11/002

1475-7516/2016/11/002

Abstract

We consider a broad class of inflationary models of two unconstrained chiral superfields, the stabilizer S and the inflaton Φ, which can describe inflationary models with nearly arbitrary potentials. These models include, in particular, the recently introduced theories of cosmological attractors, which provide an excellent fit to the latest Planck data. We show that by adding to the superpotential of the fields S and Φ a small term depending on a nilpotent chiral superfield P one can break SUSY and introduce a small cosmological constant without affecting main predictions of the original inflationary scenario.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2016/11/002