`Supersymmetric Higgs thermal inflation'

This talk discusses a class of supersymmetric models of inflation, in
which minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) is coupled
renormalisably to minimal F-term inflation. This constitutes a minimal
renormalisable extension of the MSSM which has the ingredients for a
satisfactory cosmology, including explanations for inflation, dark
matter, neutrino masses and baryogenesis. Such models can exit inflation
to a vacuum characterised by large Higgs vevs, whose vacuum energy is
controlled by supersymmetry-breaking. Given an unstable large-Higgs
vacuum, the true ground state is reached after a period of thermal
inflation at a scale of around $10^9$ GeV, which solves several
cosmological problems of the F-term inflation scenario.