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A mechanism for formation of Bose-Einstein condensation in cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-11-06 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We introduce a toy model of scalar particles with a trilinear scalar coupling in cosmology. The trilinear coupling ϕ2χ\phi^2\chi causes production of non-relativistic ϕ\phi particles through the process χχϕϕ\chi\chi\,\rightarrow\,\phi\phi where, initially, only relativistic χ\chi particles are present. We consider the initial times of χχϕϕ\chi\chi\,\rightarrow\,\phi\phi and observe that the curved space effects promote formation of Bose-Einstein condensate of ϕ\phi particles.

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@article{arxiv.1908.08784,
  title  = {A mechanism for formation of Bose-Einstein condensation in cosmology},
  author = {Recai Erdem and Kemal Gültekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08784},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Some technical details in the main text are moved to two appendices. Typos are fixed, and the presentation of the manuscript is improved