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We investigate the feasibility of models of inflation with a large Gauss-Bonnet coupling at late times, which have been shown to modify and prevent the end of inflation. Despite the potential of Gauss-Bonnet models in predicting favourable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 Carsten van de Bruck , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Chris Longden

In the present article we showcase how the reheating era can be described properly in the context of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity assuming that the primordial gravitational waves propagate with the velocity of light. The equations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-02 S. A. Venikoudis , F. P. Fronimos

We explore the phenomenological implications of the latest Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR6 observations, in combination with Planck 2018, BICEP/Keck 2018, and DESI, on the physics of inflation and post-inflationary reheating. We focus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Rajesh Mondal , Sourav Mondal , Ayan Chakraborty

We study the evolution of the Universe at early stages, we discuss also preheating in the framework of hybrid braneworld inflation by setting conditions on the coupling constants $\lambda $ and $g$\ for effective production of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-17 K. El Bourakadi , M. Bousder , Z. Sakhi , M. Bennai

We study inflationary constraints from reheating on two classes of single-field inflationary models: a generalized $\alpha$-attractor with potential $V(\phi) = V_0 \!\left(1 - \sech^p\!\left[\phi/(\sqrt{6\alpha}\,M_{Pl})\right]\right)$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Gabriel German , Juan Carlos Hidalgo

After Planck 2013, a broad class of inflationary models called \alpha-attractors was developed which has universal observational predictions. For small values of the parameter \alpha, the models have good consistency with the recent CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Mehdi Eshaghi , Moslem Zarei , Nematollah Riazi , Ahmad Kiasatpour

We consider models for inflation with a stable inflaton. Reheating is achieved through scattering processes such as $\phi \phi \to h h$, where $h$ is the Standard Model Higgs boson. We consider the reheating process in detail and show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

In this work we study one of the most appealing string theory-motivated models, we present a tachyonic inflationary model in the recently proposed symmetric teleparallel framework, and examine constraints on tachyon inflation with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 K. El Bourakadi , Z. Sakhi , M. Bennai

The simplest inflationary model $V=\frac12 m^2\phi^2$ represents the benchmark for future constraints. For a quadratic potential, the quantity $(n_s-1)+r/4+11 (n_s-1)^2/24$ vanishes (up to corrections which are cubic in slow roll) and can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-15 Paolo Creminelli , Diana López Nacir , Marko Simonović , Gabriele Trevisan , Matias Zaldarriaga

Reheating is the the epoch which connects inflation to the subsequent hot Big-Bang phase. Conceptually very important, this era is however observationally poorly known. We show that the current Planck satellite measurements of the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 Jerome Martin , Christophe Ringeval , Vincent Vennin

It is assumed that during inflation, all energy was contained in a slow-rolling inflaton field $\phi$. The particles constituting the Universe are created due to interactions with the field $\phi$ coherently oscillating after inflation. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

Despite its importance for modeling the homogeneous hot early universe very little is experimentally known about the magnitude of the reheating temperature, leaving an uncertainty of remarkable 18 orders of magnitude. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 Valerie Domcke , Jan Heisig

The Higgs inflation model with nonminimal coupling, while disfavored by the 1$\sigma$ region of the latest Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6) observational data, can be reconciled with the ACT DR6 data by incorporating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Lang Liu , Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong

We study preheating in the Palatini formalism with a quadratic inflaton potential and an added $\alpha R^2$ term. In such models, the oscillating inflaton field repeatedly returns to the plateau of the Einstein frame potential, on which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Alexandros Karam , Eemeli Tomberg , Hardi Veermäe

Recent cosmological observations are in good agreement with the scalar spectral index $n_s$ with $n_s-1\sim -2/N$, where $N$ is the number of e-foldings. Quadratic chaotic model, Starobinsky model and Higgs inflation or $\alpha$-attractors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-03 Takeshi Chiba

The inflationary reheating phase begins when accelerated expansion ends. As all Standard Model particles are coupled to gravity, gravitational interactions will lead to particle production. This includes the thermal bath, dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Gongjun Choi , Wenqi Ke , Keith A. Olive

We show how to constrain inflationary models and reheating by using mixed constraints. In particular we study the physics of the reheating phase after inflation from observational constraints to the inflationary stage. We show that it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Gabriel German , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Ariadna Montiel

Reheating phase of inflationary Universe can be modeled by parameters $T_{\text{reh}}$, $\bar{w}_{\text{reh}}$ and $N_{\text{reh}}$, which can be constrained by the scalar spectral amplitude $A_{s}$ and the scalar spectral index $n_{s}$. On…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 Rajesh Goswami , Urjit A. Yajnik

We discuss inflaton decays and reheating in no-scale Starobinsky-like models of inflation, calculating the effective equation-of-state parameter, $w$, during the epoch of inflaton decay, the reheating temperature, $T_{\rm reh}$, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-06 John Ellis , Marcos A. G. Garcia , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive

We eliminate the parameters originally present in models of inflation of the $\alpha$-attractor type in favor of the scalar spectral index $n_s$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. We then write expressions for the number of $e$-folds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Gabriel German