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تسجيل مستخدم جديد$Delta N_{text{eff}}$ and entropy production from early-decaying gravitinos
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Gravitinos are a fundamental prediction of supergravity, their mass ($m_{G}$) is informative of the value of the SUSY breaking scale, and, if produced during reheating, their number density is a function of the reheating temperature ($T_{text{rh}}$). As a result, constraining their parameter space provides in turn significant constraints on particles physics and cosmology. We have previously shown that for gravitinos decaying into photons or charged particles during the ($mu$ and $y$) distortion eras, upcoming CMB spectral distortions bounds are highly effective in constraining the $T_{text{rh}}-m_{G}$ space. For heavier gravitinos (with lifetimes shorter than a few $times10^6$ sec), distortions are quickly thermalized and energy injections cause a temperature rise for the CMB bath. If the decay occurs after neutrino decoupling, its overall effect is a suppression of the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom ($N_{text{eff}}$). In this paper, we utilize the observational bounds on $N_{text{eff}}$ to constrain gravitino decays, and hence provide new constaints on gravitinos and reheating. For gravitino masses less than $approx 10^5$ GeV, current observations give an upper limit on the reheating scale in the range of $approx 5 times 10^{10}- 5 times 10^{11}$GeV. For masses greater than $approx 4 times 10^3$ GeV they are more stringent than previous bounds from BBN constraints, coming from photodissociation of deuterium, by almost 2 orders of magnitude.
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