2009/08/31 by Mansoor Ur Rehman, Qaisar Shafi, Joshua R. Wickman · 4 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.12.010
published as Phys.Lett.B683:191-195,2010 · v1: 9 pages, 6 figures; v2: 10 pages, published in Phys. Lett. B
openalex publication_date 2009/12/12 · arxiv created 2010/01/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss the important role played during inflation by one of the soft supersymmetry breaking terms in the inflationary potential of supersymmetric hybrid inflation models. With minimal Kähler potential, the inclusion of this term allows the prediction for the scalar spectral index to agree with the value ns=0.963−0.015+0.014 found by WMAP5. In the absence of this soft term, and by taking into account only radiative and supergravity corrections, it is well known that ns⩾0.985. This same soft term has previously been shown to play a key role in resolving the MSSM μ problem. The tensor to scalar ratio r is quite small in these models, taking on values r⩽10−5 in the WMAP5 2σ range of ns.