Thermal History of the Universe After Inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2017-08-23 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
When did the universe thermalize? In this talk I review the status of this issue and its importance in establishing the expected properties of dark matter, the growth of large-scale structure, and the viability of inflation models when confronted with CMB observations. I also present a novel approach to tackling the theoretical challenges surrounding inflationary (p)reheating, which seeks to extend past work on the Effective Field Theory of Inflation to the time of reheating.
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@article{arxiv.1510.05661,
title = {Thermal History of the Universe After Inflation},
author = {Scott Watson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05661},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Invited Plenary Talk at PPC 2015. 6 pages, no figures