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We study a version of Starobinsky-like inflation in no-scale supergravity (SUGRA) where a Polonyi term in the hidden sector breaks supersymmetry (SUSY) after inflation, providing a link between the gravitino mass and inflation. We extend the theory to the visible sector and calculate the soft-SUSY breaking parameters depending on the modular weights in the superpotential and choice of Kähler potential. We are led to either no-scale SUGRA or pure gravity mediated SUSY breaking patterns, but with inflationary constraints on the Polonyi term setting a strict upper bound on the gravitino mass m3/2< 103 TeV. Since gaugino masses are significantly lighter than m3/2, this suggests that SUSY may be discovered at the LHC or FCC.
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King, S.F., Perdomo, E. Starobinsky-like inflation and soft-SUSY breaking. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 211 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)211
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