Inflation and Leptogenesis in a $U(1)$-enhanced supersymmetric model

Abstract

Motivated by the flavored Peccei-Quinn symmetry for unifying flavor physics and string theory, we investigate a supersymmetric extension of standard model (SM) for an explanation of inflation and leptogenesis by introducing $U(1)$ symmetries such that the $U(1)$-$[gravity]^2$ anomaly-free condition together with the SM flavor structure demands additional sterile neutrinos as well as no axionic domain-wall problem. Such additional neutrinos may play a crucial role as a bridge between leptogenesis and new neutrino oscillations along with high energy cosmic events. In a realistic moduli stabilization, we show that the moduli backreaction effect on the inflationary potential leads to the energy scale of inflation with the inflaton mass in a way that the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation and the scalar spectral index are to be well fitted with the latest Planck observation. We suggest that a new leptogenesis scenario could naturally be implemented via Affleck-Dine mechanism. So we show that the resultant baryon asymmetry, constrained by the sum of active neutrino masses and new high energy neutrino oscillations, crucially depends on the reheating temperature $T_{\rm reh}$. And we show that the model has a preference on $T_{\rm reh}\sim10^3$ TeV, which is compatible with the required $T_{\rm reh}$ to explain the baryon asymmetry of the Universe.