Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/09/020
Keywords
CMBR theory; inflation; cosmic strings; domain walls; monopoles
Funding
- STFC [ST/F002998/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Global topological defects may account for the large cold spot observed in the cosmic microwave background. We explore possibilities for constructing models of supersymmetric F-term hybrid inflation, where the waterfall fields are globally SU(2)-symmetric. In contrast to the case where SU(2) is gauged, there arise Goldstone bosons and additional moduli, which are lifted only by masses of soft supersymmetry breaking scale. The model predicts the existence of global textures, which can become semi-local strings if the waterfall fields are gauged under U(1) X. Gravitino overproduction can be avoided if reheating proceeds via the light SU(2)-modes or right-handed sneutrinos. For values of the inflaton-waterfall coupling greater than or similar to 10(-4), the symmetry breaking scale imposed by normalization of the power spectrum generated from inflation coincides with the energy scale required to explain the most prominent of the cold spots. In this case, the spectrum of density fluctuations is close to scale invariant, which can be reconciled with measurements of the power spectrum by the inclusion of the sub-dominant component due to the topological defects.
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