Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology: Theory and Applications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-02-03 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Matter particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We give a review of the reheating process, focusing on an in-depth discussion of the preheating stage which is characterized by exponential particle production due to a parametric resonance or tachyonic instability. We give a brief overview of the thermalization process after preheating and end with a survey of some applications to supersymmetric theories and to other issues in cosmology such as baryogenesis, dark matter and metric preheating.
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@article{arxiv.1001.2600,
title = {Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology: Theory and Applications},
author = {Rouzbeh Allahverdi and Robert Brandenberger and Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine and Anupam Mazumdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2600},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Draft of commissioned review article for Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, comments welcome! A few references added in this version