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Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: Probing inflation with gravitational waves
Nicola Bartolo, Chiara Caprini, Valerie Domcke +11
We investigate the potential for the LISA space-based interferometer to detect the stochastic gravitational wave background produced from different mechanisms during inflation. Foc…
Dynamical D-Terms in Supergravity
Valerie Domcke, Kai Schmitz, Tsutomu T. Yanagida
Most phenomenological models of supersymmetry breaking rely on nonzero F-terms rather than nonzero D-terms. An important reason why D-terms are often neglected is that it turns out…
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies as degenerate gas of free fermions
Valerie Domcke, Alfredo Urbano
In this paper we analyze a simple scenario in which Dark Matter (DM) consists of free fermions with mass . We assume that on galactic scales these fermions are capable of form…
The Chaotic Regime of D-Term Inflation
W. Buchmuller, V. Domcke, K. Schmitz
We consider D-term inflation for small couplings of the inflaton to matter fields. Standard hybrid inflation then ends at a critical value of the inflaton field that exceeds the Pl…
Hybrid Inflation in the Complex Plane
Wilfried Buchmuller, Valerie Domcke, Kohei Kamada +1
Supersymmetric hybrid inflation is an exquisite framework to connect inflationary cosmology to particle physics at the scale of grand unification. Ending in a phase transition asso…
Spontaneous B-L Breaking as the Origin of the Hot Early Universe
Wilfried Buchmüller, Valerie Domcke, Kai Schmitz
The decay of a false vacuum of unbroken B-L symmetry is an intriguing and testable mechanism to generate the initial conditions of the hot early universe. If B-L is broken at the g…