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We consider the generation of super-horizon metric fluctuations during an epoch of preheating in the presence of a scalar field \chi quadratically coupled to the inflaton. We find that the requirement of efficient broad resonance is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Karsten Jedamzik , Guenter Sigl

We explore a new possibility that some inflaton fields in multi-field inflation models satisfy the observed value of the spectral index so that the curvature perturbation generated by them through post-inflationary dynamics may be relevant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jinn-Ouk Gong

We study the effects of perturbative reheating on the evolution of the curvature perturbation \zeta, in two-field inflation models. We use numerical methods to explore the sensitivity of f_NL, n_s and r to the reheating process, and present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-20 Godfrey Leung , Ewan R. M. Tarrant , Christian T. Byrnes , Edmund J. Copeland

The paradigm of the inflationary universe provides a possible explanation for several observed cosmological properties. In order for such solutions to be successful, the universe must convert the energy stored in the inflaton potential into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Leia Barrowes , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch , John T. Giblin, , Scott Watson

We numerically investigate reheating after quadratic inflation with up to 65 fields, focusing on the production of non-Gaussianity. We consider several sets of initial conditions, masses and decay rates. As expected we find that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Pedro Carrilho , David Mulryne , John Ronayne

Any one-field inflation is actually realized in a multifield configuration because the inflaton must have couplings with other fields to reheat the universe and is coupled to all other fields at least gravitationally. In all single inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahide Yamaguchi , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

In this paper, we investigate some consequences of multiple-field inflation for the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). We derive expressions for the amplitudes, the spectral indices and the derivatives of the indices of the CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bartjan van Tent

Current observations indicate that an inverse exponential form of the inflaton potential provides an excellent description of single-field inflation. This potential fits the SPA$+$BK$+$DESI data sets well with in the $1\sigma$ bound in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Md. Wali Hossain

We study the effects of primordial magnetic fields on the inflationary potential in the context of a warm inflation scenario. The model, based on global supersymmetry with a new-inflation-type potential and a coupling between the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-08 Gabriella Piccinelli , Angel Sanchez , Alejandro Ayala , Ana Julia Mizher

We investigate the observational signatures of many-field inflation and present analytic expressions for the spectral index as a function of the prior. For a given prior we employ the central limit theorem and the horizon crossing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Perseas Christodoulidis , Diederik Roest , Robert Rosati

An analytic means of studying the resonant decay of the inflaton field is developed for the case of background expansion, $H \neq 0$. It is shown that the parametric resonance in the inflaton's decay need not disappear when the expansion of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David I. Kaiser

By using a No-Scale Supergravity model, which was proved well to explain WMAP observations appropriately, a mechanism of preheating just after the end of inflation is investigated. By using the canonically normalized and diagonalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-03 Yuta Koshimizu , Toyokazu Fukuoka , Kenji Takagi , Hikoya Kasari , Mitsuo J. Hayashi

We review results of a numerical study of resonant inflaton decay in a wide range of realistic models and parameters. Wide enough parametric resonance can withstand the expansion of the Universe, though account for the expansion is very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. I. Tkachev

We investigate whether Effective Field Theory (EFT) approaches, which have been useful in examining inflation and dark energy, can also be used to establish a systematic approach to inflationary reheating. We consider two methods. First, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Ogan Ozsoy , John T. Giblin , Eva Nesbit , Gizem Sengor , Scott Watson

We develop a general formalism for analyzing linear perturbations in multiple-field cosmological inflation based on the gauge-ready approach. Our inflationary model consists of an arbitrary number of scalar fields with non-minimal kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joydev Lahiri , Gautam Bhattacharya

The combined Planck, BICEP/Keck Array and BAO measurements of the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio from the cosmic microwave background observations severely constrain or completely rule out several models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Diganta Das , Shreyas Revankar

We study the problem of scalar particle production after inflation by a rapidly oscillating inflaton field. We use the framework of the chaotic inflation scenario with quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials. Particular attention is paid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Shtanov , J. Traschen , R. Brandenberger

Inflation offers a simple model for very early evolution of our Universe and the origin of primordial perturbations on large scales. Over the last 25 years we have become familiar with the predictions of single-field models, but inflation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David Wands

Here, we revisit the question of possible preheating of entropy modes in a two field model with a massless inflaton coupled to a matter scalar field. Using a perturbative approximation to the covariant method we demonstrate that there is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam , Robert H. Brandenberger , Yi-Fu Cai , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

We take an analytic approach towards the framework of parametric resonance and apply it on preheating and locked inflation. A two-scalar toy model is analytically solved for the \lambda\phi^2\chi^2 coupling for the homogenous modes. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-22 Lingfei Wang