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Reheating via gravitational particle production in kination epoch

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-03-27 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We provide a detailed study of reheating in the kination regime where particle content is created by gravitational production of massive scalars mutually interacting with a massless scalar field. The produced particles subsequently decay into massless particles eventually reheating the Universe. We aim for a more precise picture using Boltzmann equations and decay rates obtained by methods of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. By numerical calculations it is found that after inflation the Universe ends up being dominated by ordinary matter for a while before the radiation dominated era. The reheating temperature itself is found to be in the 1061012 GeV10^6-10^{12}\ \text{GeV} regime.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07520,
  title  = {Reheating via gravitational particle production in kination epoch},
  author = {Juho Lankinen and Oskari Kerppo and Iiro Vilja},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07520},
  year   = {2020}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures