Informal Pizza Seminar

A road towards reheating MS(SM) degrees of freedom

Anupam Mazumdar

Nordita

I will discuss reheating and thermalization within SUSY. After inflation the inflaton always decays perturbatively and the Universe ends up in a quasi-thermal phase which delays reheating. I will argue that the 25 years old calculation on standard gravitino production is no longer valid within MSSM. If time permits I will discuss challenges for obtaining baryon number density through quasi-thermal leptogenesis.