The Case for an EeV Gravitino

Abstract

We consider the possibility that supersymmetry is broken above the inflationary mass scale and that the only "low" energy remnant of supersymmetry is the gravitino with mass of order the EeV scale. The gravitino in this class of models becomes a candidate for the dark matter of the Universe. To avoid the over-production of gravitinos from the decays of the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle we argue that the supersymmetric spectrum must lie above the inflationary mass scale ($M_{\mathrm{SUSY}}>10^{-5}{M}_{\mathrm{P}}\sim 10^{13}$ GeV). Since $m_{3/2}\simeq M_{\mathrm{SUSY}}^2/M_{\mathrm{P}}$, we expect $m_{3/2}\gtrsim 0.2$ EeV. Cosmological constraints then predict a relatively large reheating temperature between $10^{10}$ and $10^{12}$ GeV.

6 pages, 1 figure. Dedicated to the memory of Pierre Binetruy

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