We present a successful realization of sneutrino tribrid inflation model based on a gauged $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). A single interaction term involving the $B-L$ Higgs field and the right-handed neutrinos serves multiple purposes. These include the generation of heavy Majorana masses for the right-handed neutrinos to provide an explanation for the tiny neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism, a realistic scenario for reheating and non-thermal leptogenesis with a reheat temperature as low as $10^6$ GeV, and a successful realization of inflation with right-handed sneutrino as the inflaton. The matter parity which helps avoid rapid proton decay survives as a $Z_{2}$ subgroup of a $U(1)$ $R$-symmetry. Depending on the choice of model parameters yields the following predicted range of the tensor to scalar ratio, $3 times 10^{-11}lesssim rlesssim 7times 10^{-4}$ ($ 6 times 10^{-7} lesssim r lesssim 0.01 $), and the running of the scalar spectral index, $-0.00022 lesssim dn_s/dln k lesssim -0.0026$ ($-0.00014 lesssim dn_s/dln k lesssim 0.005$), along with the $B-L$ breaking scale, $ 3 times 10^{14}lesssim M/ text{GeV}lesssim 5 times 10^{15}$ ($ 6 times 10^{15}lesssim M/ text{GeV}lesssim 2 times 10^{16}$), calculated at the central value of the scalar spectral index, $n_s =0.966$, reported by Planck 2018. The possibility of realizing metastable cosmic strings in a grand unified theory setup is briefly discussed. The metastable cosmic string network admits string tension values in the range $10^{-8} lesssim Gmu_s lesssim 10^{-6}$, and predicts a stochastic gravitational wave background lying within the 2-$sigma$ bounds of the recent NANOGrav 12.5-yr data.
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