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Item Radiative symmetry breaking, cosmic strings and observable gravity waves in 𝖴(1)𝖱 symmetric 𝖲𝖴(5) × 𝖴(1)χ(Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2023-01-16) Ahmed, Waqas; Zubair, UmerWe implement shifted hybrid inflation in the framework of supersymmetric SU(5) × U(1)χ GUT model which provides a natural solution to the monopole problem appearing in the spontaneous symmetry breaking of SU(5). The U(1)χ symmetry is radiatevely broken after the end of inflation at an intermediate scale, yielding topologically stable cosmic strings. The Planck's bound on the gravitational interaction strength of these strings, characterized by GNμs are easily satisfied with the U(1)χ symmetry breaking scale which depends on the initial boundary conditions at the GUT scale. The dimension-5 proton lifetime for the decay p → K+ν̅, mediated by color-triplet Higgsinos is found to satisfy current Super-Kamiokande bounds for SUSY breaking scale MSUSY ≳ 12.5 TeV. We show that with minimal Kähler potential, the soft supersymmetry breaking terms play a vital role in bringing the scalar spectral index n_s within the Planck's latest bounds, although with small tensor modes r ≲ 2.5 × 10-6 and SU(5) gauge symmetry breaking scale in the range (2 × 1015≲ Mα ≲ 2 × 1016) GeV. By employing non-minimal terms in the Kähler potential, the tensor-to-scalar ratio approaches observable values (r ≲ 10-3) with the SU(5) symmetry breaking scale Mα ≃ 2 × 1016 GeV.Item Smooth hybrid inflation with low reheat temperature and observable gravity waves in SU(5) × U(1)χ super-GUT(Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022-06-23) Ahmed, Waqas; Karozas, Athanasios; Leontaris, George K.; Zubair, UmerWe realize smooth hybrid inflation in the framework of supersymmetric SU(5) × U(1)χ ⊂ SO(10) model which provides a natural solution to the monopole problem appearing in the spontaneous symmetry breaking of SU(5). The breaking of U(1)χ symmetry leaves a residual discrete Z2 symmetry, that serves as the MSSM matter parity, realizing the possibility of the lightest supersymmetric particle as a cold dark matter candidate. The d = 5 proton lifetime for the decay p ⟶ K+ν̅, mediated by color-triplet Higgsinos is found to satisfy current experimental bounds if split-high scale SUSY scenario is employed. We show that with minimal Kähler potential, the soft supersymmetry breaking terms play a vital rôle in bringing the scalar spectral index ns within the Planck's latest bounds. In a minimal Kähler potential setup, small values of tensor-to-scalar ratio r ≲ 3.5 × 10-7 are obtained, whereas the gravitino mass turns out to be in the range that favors PeV scale SUSY but is not sufficiently high to avoid the d = 5 proton decay. A non-minimal Kähler potential including higher order corrections is required to realize successful inflation with central value of scalar spectral index ns = 0.9655, large tensor modes r ≲ 0.056 and a low reheat temperature (3 × 106 ≲ Tr ≲ 6.5 × 107) GeV consistent with leptogenesis and baryogenesis.