Reheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models
arXiv:hep-th/0611006 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.085006
Abstract
In theories with multiple vacua, reheating to a temperature greater than the height of a barrier can stimulate transitions from a desirable metastable vacuum to a lower energy state. We discuss the constraints this places on various theories and demonstrate that in a class of supersymmetric models this transition does not occur even for arbitrarily high reheating temperature.
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