Phys. Rev. D 75, 085006 (2007) [11 pages]

Reheating metastable O’Raifeartaigh models

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Nathaniel J. Craig^1,2, Patrick J. Fox³, and Jay G. Wacker^1,2
¹Theory Group, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
²Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94306, USA
³Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

Received 5 December 2006; published 13 April 2007

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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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.085006

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10.1103/PhysRevD.75.085006

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12.60.Jv, 11.10.Wx

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Phys. Rev. D 75, 085006 (2007) [11 pages]

Reheating metastable O’Raifeartaigh models