Preheating with Non-Minimal Kinetic Terms
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2013-08-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We present the first 3+1-dimensional numerical simulations of scalar fields with non-minimal kinetic terms. As an example, we examine the existence and stability of preheating in the presence of a Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) inflaton coupled to a canonical matter field. The simulations represent the full non-linear theory in the presence of an expanding Universe. We show that parametric resonance in the matter field, along with self-resonance in the inflaton, repopulate the Universe with matter particles as efficiently as in traditional preheating.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.0561,
title = {Preheating with Non-Minimal Kinetic Terms},
author = {Hillary L. Child and John T. Giblin and Raquel H. Ribeiro and David Seery},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.0561},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures; note correction to parameter value in first paragraph of Numerical Simulations section (typographical error in published version)