Can thermal inflation be consistent with baryogenesis in gauge-mediated SUSY breaking models?
Can thermal inflation be consistent with baryogenesis in gauge-mediated SUSY breaking models?
Thermal inflation is an attractive idea to dilute cosmic density of unwanted particles such as moduli fields which cause cosmological difficulties. However, it also dilutes preexisting baryon asymmetry and some viable baryogenesis is necessary for a cosmologically consistent scenario. We investigate whether the Affleck-Dine mechanism can produce baryon asymmetry enough …