Constraining Light Gravitino Mass from Cosmic Microwave Background
Abstract
We investigate the possibilities of constraining the light gravitino mass m3/2 from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. A model with light gravitino with the mass m3/2<O(10) eV is of great interest since it is free from the cosmological gravitino problem and, in addition, can be compatible with many baryogenesis/leptogenesis scenarios such as the thermal leptogenesis. We show that the lensing of CMB anisotropies can be a good probe for m3/2 and obtain an expected constraint on m3/2 from precise measurements of lensing potential in the future CMB surveys, such as the PolarBeaR and CMBpol experiments. If the gravitino mass is m3/2=1 eV, we will obtain the constraint for the gravitino mass as m3/2 < 3.2 eV (95% C.L.) for the case with Planck+PolarBeaR combined and m3/2=1.04+0.22-0.26 eV (68% C.L.) for CMBpol. The issue of Bayesian model selection is also discussed.