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Unified no-scale model of modulus fixing, inflation, supersymmetry breaking, and dark energy

John Ellis, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Keith A. Olive, and Sarunas Verner
Phys. Rev. D 100, 025009 – Published 18 July 2019

Abstract

We present a minimal SU(2,1)/SU(2)×U(1) no-scale model that unifies modulus fixing, Starobinsky-like inflation, an adjustable scale for supersymmetry breaking, and the possibility of a small cosmological constant, a.k.a. dark energy.

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  • Received 25 March 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.025009

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Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

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John Ellis1, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos2, Keith A. Olive3, and Sarunas Verner3

  • 1Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom, Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland, and NICPB, Rävala pst. 10, 10143 Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA, Astroparticle Physics Group, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), Mitchell Campus, Woodlands, Texas 77381, USA, and Academy of Athens, Division of Natural Sciences, Athens 10679, Greece
  • 3William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

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Vol. 100, Iss. 2 — 15 July 2019

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