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Power law Starobinsky model of inflation from no-scale SUGRA
We consider a power law correction to Einstein
gravity as a model of inflation. The interesting feature of this form of
generalization is that small deviations from the Starobinsky limit
can change the value of tensor to scalar ratio from to . We find that in order to get
large tensor perturbation as indicated by BKP measurements, we
require the value of thereby breaking global Weyl
symmetry. We show that the general model can be obtained from a SUGRA
construction by adding a power law term to the minimal
no-scale SUGRA K\"ahler potential. We further show that this two parameter
power law generalization of the Starobinsky model is equivalent to generalized
non-minimal curvature coupled models with quantum corrected -
potentials i.e. models of the form and thus the power law Starobinsky model is the most
economical parametrization of such models.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Matches version to appear in Phys. Lett.
Plateau Inflation in -parity Violating MSSM
Inflation with plateau potentials give the best fit to the CMB observables as
they predict tensor to scalar ratio stringently bounded by the observations
from Planck and BICEP2/Keck. In supergravity models it is possible to obtain
plateau potentials for scalar fields in the Einstein frame which can serve as
the inflation potential by considering higher dimensional Planck suppressed
operators and by the choice of non-canonical K\"ahler potentials. We construct
a plateau inflation model in MSSM where the inflation occurs along a
sneutrino-Higgs flat direction. A hidden sector Polonyi field is used for the
breaking of supersymmetry after the end of the inflation. The proper choice of
superpotential leads to strong stabilization of the Polonyi field, , which is required to solve the cosmological moduli problem. Also,
the SUSY breaking results in a TeV scale gravitino mass and scalar masses and
gives rise to bilinear and triliear couplings of scalars which can be tested at
the LHC. The sneutrino inflation field can be observed at the LHC as a TeV
scale diphoton resonance like the one reported by CMS and ATLAS.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted for publication in Physics
Letters
Kaon processes in general 2HDM
We discuss new physics (NP) contributions to kaon mixing parameter
, direct CP violation parameter
of , and rare decays , and in the context of general two
Higgs doublet model. We focus on contributions of top quark related exotic
couplings, and show that simultaneous presence of flavor conserving and flavor
violating interactions can lead to large NP effects in kaon sector, while being
consistent with the stringent constraints from B physics observables such as
- mixing, , and . We
stress on the importance of correlations between , and that can be exploited to distinguish
the parameter space corresponding to a light (sub-TeV) or heavy (TeV) scale
charged Higgs boson.Comment: Talk given at the KAON 2022 conference, September 13-16, 2022, Osaka
(Japan); submission to Journal of Physics: Conference Serie
Supergravity Model of Inflation and Explaining IceCube HESE Data via PeV Dark Matter Decay
We construct an unified model of inflation and PeV dark matter with an
appropriate choice of no-scale K\"ahler potential, superpotential and gauge
kinetic function in terms of MSSM fields and hidden sector Polonyi field. The
model is consistent with the CMB observations and can explain the PeV neutrino
flux observed at IceCube HESE. A Starobinsky like Higgs-sneutrino plateau
inflation is obtained from the -term SUGRA potential while -term being
subdominant during inflation. To get PeV dark matter, SUSY breaking at PeV
scale is achieved through Polonyi field. This sets the scale for soft SUSY
breaking parameters at the GUT scale in terms of the
parameters of the model. The low energy particles spectrum is obtained by
running the RGEs. We show that the 125 GeV higgs and the gauge coupling
unification can be obtained in this model. The PeV bino-type dark matter is
a subdominant fraction () of the relic density and its decay gives
the PeV scale neutrino flux observed at IceCube by appropriately choosing the
couplings of the -parity violating operators. Also we find that there is a
degeneracy in scalar field parameters and coupling
value in producing the correct amplitude of CMB power spectrum. However the
value of parameter , which is tightly fixed from the
requirement of PeV scale SUSY breaking, removes the degeneracy in the values of
the scalar field parameters to provide a unique solution for inflation. In this
way it brings the explanation for dark matter, PeV neutrinos and inflation
within the same framework.Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in 'AHEP
(Advances in High Energy Physics)
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