The First Particles
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-01-28 v1
Abstract
After cosmic inflation, the universe is cold and almost empty. Thus, the inflation field should decay to the particles for BBN through the so-called reheating process. Later, the matter-antimatter asymmetry and dark matter are produced. In this chapter, the ``first particle" production between the inflation phase and BBN phase is introduced. We focus on the reheating, electroweak baryogenesis, and leptogenesis.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.15543,
title = {The First Particles},
author = {Fa Peng Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.15543},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Preprint of a chapter for the 'Encyclopedia of Astrophysics' (Editor-in-Chief Ilya Mandel, Section Editor Cullan Howlett) to be published by Elsevier as a Reference Module