Can Inflation Induce Supersymmetry Breaking in a Metastable Vacuum?

Abstract

We argue that fields responsible for inflation and supersymmetry breaking are connected by gravitational couplings. In view of the recent progress in studying supersymmetry breaking in a metastable vacuum, we have shown that in models of supersymmetric hybrid inflation, where R-symmetry plays an important role, the scale of supersymmetry breaking is generated dynamically at the end of inflation and turns out to be consistent with gravity mediation.

Comments: 5 pages, Latex, Footnote and references added, Journal version