Abstract
We investigate the possibilities of constraining the light gravitino mass m3/2 from future cosmic microwave background (CMB) surveys. A model with light gravitino with the mass m3/2 < \U0001d4aa(10) eV is of great interest since it is free from the cosmological gravitino problem and, in addition, can be compatible with many baryogenesis/leptogenesis scenarios such as the thermal leptogenesis. We show that the lensing of CMB anisotropies can be a good probe for m3/2 and obtain an expected constraint on m3/2 from precise measurements of lensing potential in the future CMB surveys, such as the PolarBeaR and CMBpol experiments. If the gravitino mass is m3/2 = 1 eV, we will obtain the constraint for the gravitino mass as m3/2 ⩽ 3.2 eV (95%C.L.) for the case with Planck+PolarBeaR combined andm3/2 = 1.04+0.22−0.26 eV (68%C.L.) forCMBpol. The issue of Bayesian model selection is also discussed.
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