Production and dilution of gravitinos by modulus decay

Abstract

We study the cosmological consequences of generic scalar fields like moduli which decay only through gravitationally suppressed interactions. We consider a new production mechanism of gravitinos from moduli decay, which might be more effective than previously known mechanisms, and calculate the final gravitino-to-entropy ratio to compare with the constraints imposed by successful big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) etc., taking possible hadronic decays of gravitinos into account. We find the modulus mass smaller than $\sim 10^4$ TeV is excluded. On the other hand, inflation models with high reheating temperatures $T_{R,\inf }\sim 10^{16}$ GeV can be compatible with BBN thanks to the late-time entropy production from the moduli decay if model parameters are appropriately chosen.

arXiv comment18 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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