Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-04-02
Nucl.Phys. B531 (1998) 461-477
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, LaTeX file
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00592-6
An inflationary stage dominated by a $D$-term avoids the slow-roll problem of inflation in supergravity and may emerge in theories with a non-anomalous or anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry. The most intriguing and commonly invoked possibility is that the Fayet-Iliopoulos $D$-term triggering inflation is the one emerging in superstring theories. We discuss the complications one has to face when trying to build up a successful $D$-term inflationary scenario in superstring models. In particular, we show that the ``vacuum shifting'' phenomenon of string theories is usually very efficient even in the early Universe, thus preventing inflation from taking place. On the other hand, when $D$-term inflation is free to occur, the presence of a plethora of fields and several non-anomalous additional abelian symmetries in string theories may help in reconciling the value of the Fayet-Iliopoulos $D$-term required by the COBE normalization with the value predicted by string theories. We also show that in superstring $D$-term inflation gravitinos are likely to pose no cosmological problem.
Espinosa Jose Ramon
Riotto Antonio
Ross Graham G.
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