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Radiative Corrections and Reheating in Supergravity Models of Inflation

John Ellis, Tony Gherghetta, Kunio Kaneta, Wenqi Ke, Keith A. Olive

hep-pharXiv:2609.00221

Abstract

We consider the effects of radiative corrections in Starobinsky-like models of inflation, concentrating on models of inflation formulated in N=1 no-scale supergravity. Inflaton couplings to matter fields are necessary for reheating and these have an impact on loop corrections to the inflaton potential. Whilst corrections due to the supergravity couplings of the inflaton to Standard Model (MSSM) fields are negligible, we use Planck data to obtain interesting constraints on GUT bilinear couplings, vevs, and gauge boson masses that could be sharpened by future CMB measurements.

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