Abstract
We investigate the Affleck-Dine baryogenesis after -term inflation with a positive Hubble-induced mass term for a flat direction. It stays at a large field value during -term inflation, and just after inflation ends it starts to oscillate around the origin of the potential due to the positive Hubble-induced mass term. The phase direction is kicked by higher-dimensional Kähler potentials to generate the asymmetry. The scenario predicts nonzero baryonic isocurvature perturbations, which would be detected by future observations of CMB fluctuations. We also provide a -term inflation model which naturally explains the coincidence of the energy density of baryon and dark matter.
- Received 21 February 2015
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.083512
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