Supersymmetry breaking and loop corrections at the end of inflation

Abstract

We show that quantum corrections to the effective potential in supersymmetric hybrid inflation can be calculated all the way from the inflationary period - when the Universe is dominated by a false vacuum energy density - till the fields settle down to the global supersymmetric minimum of the potential. These are crucial for getting a continuous description of the evolution of the fields.

Comments: minor corrections; version to be published in Phys. Rev. D