Gauge Field Preheating at the End of Inflation
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2013-10-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Here we consider the possibility of preheating the Universe via the parametric amplification of a massless, U(1) abelian gauge field. We assume that the gauge field is coupled to the inflaton via a conformal factor with one free parameter. We present the results of high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of this model and show this mechanism efficiently preheats the Universe to a radiation-dominated final state.
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@article{arxiv.1305.7226,
title = {Gauge Field Preheating at the End of Inflation},
author = {J. Tate Deskins and John T. Giblin and Robert R. Caldwell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.7226},
year = {2013}
}
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8 pages, 8 figures