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Emilian Dudas1, Yann Mambrini2, Keith A Olive3
1CPhT, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
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 a mass of the order of the EeV scale. The gravitino in this class of models becomes a candidate for the dark matter of the Universe. To avoid the overproduction 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_{SUSY}>10^{-5}M_{P}∼10^{13} GeV). Since m_{3/2}≃M_{SUSY}^{2}/M_{P}, we expect m_{3/2}≳0.2 EeV. Cosmological constraints then predict a relatively large reheating temperature between 10^{10} and 10^{12} GeV.
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