Gravitational production of gravitinos

Abstract

We calculate the number density of helicity $\pm 3/2$ gravitinos produced out of the vacuum by the non-static gravitational field in a generic inflation scenario. We compare it to the number density of gravitinos produced in particle interactions during reheating.

RevTex 10 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.D (submitted June 14)

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