20 September 2016
Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Europe/Rome timezone

Inflation, SUSY Breaking and Cosmological Constant

20 Sept 2016, 10:00
45m
Grassano Room (Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Grassano Room

Physics Department, University of Rome Tor Vergata

Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy

Speaker

Prof. Andrei Linde (Stanford University)

Description

I will describe a large class of inflationary models, cosmological attractors, which can describe not only inflation, but also SUSY breaking and the cosmological constant. The simplest models of this class involve nilpotent chiral superfields. This allows to describe small SUSY breaking which does not lead to the infamous cosmological Polonyi field problem.

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