TY - JOUR AU - Buchmuller, Wilfried AU - Covi, Laura AU - Delepine, David TI - Inflation and supersymmetry breaking JO - Physics letters / B VL - 491 IS - 1-2 SN - 0370-2693 CY - Amsterdam PB - North-Holland Publ. M1 - PUBDB-2017-01634 M1 - hep-ph/0006168 M1 - DESY-00-082 SP - 183 - 189 PY - 2000 AB - We study the connection between inflation and supersymmetry breaking in the context of an O'Raifeartaigh model which can account for both hybrid inflation and a true vacuum where supersymmetry is spontaneously broken. For a weakly coupled inflaton field, the dynamics during the inflationary phase can be determined by the supersymmetry breaking scale M S ∼10 10 GeV, even if H I ⪢ m 3/2 . The spectrum of density fluctuations is then almost scale invariant, with a spectral index n−1= O (M G 2 /M P 2 ) . The mass parameter M G of the O'Raifeartaigh model is determined by the COBE normalization for the cosmic microwave background to be the grand unification scale, M G ∼10 16 GeV. KW - inflation: hybrid (INSPIRE) KW - supersymmetry: symmetry breaking (INSPIRE) KW - inflaton: weak coupling (INSPIRE) KW - density: fluctuation (INSPIRE) KW - O'Raifeartaigh model (INSPIRE) KW - supergravity (INSPIRE) KW - cosmic background radiation (INSPIRE) KW - moduli (INSPIRE) KW - coupling: Yukawa (INSPIRE) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)29 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000090035400026 DO - DOI:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01005-4 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/320267 ER -