Vacuum instability in anomaly mediation models with massive neutrinos

Masahiro Kawasaki, T. Watari, and T. Yanagida
Phys. Rev. D 63, 083510 – Published 22 March 2001
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Abstract

We study the vacuum stability in the anomaly mediated supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking models with massive neutrinos. It is shown that, because of the seesaw-induced mass terms for neutrinos, the true vacuum has a large negative cosmological constant provided that the vacuum where we now live has an (almost) vanishing cosmological constant. Although the quantum transition into the true vacuum from our false vacuum is highly suppressed, the thermal transition at high temperatures may not be neglected because of the thermal excitations. However, we find that the thermal transition is, in fact, negligibly small and hence the anomaly mediation models are cosmologically safe. Thus, we conclude that the reheating temperature TR could be very high (e.g., TR1010GeV) in the anomaly mediation models even with the seesaw-induced mass terms for neutrinos.

  • Received 13 October 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.63.083510

©2001 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Masahiro Kawasaki

  • Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

T. Watari

  • Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

T. Yanagida

  • Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
  • Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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Vol. 63, Iss. 8 — 15 April 2001

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