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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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-27 Juho Lankinen , Oskari Kerppo , Iiro Vilja

We apply the squeezed state formalism to scalar field dark matter (e.g. axion) perturbations generated during inflation. As for the inflationary perturbations, the scalar field state becomes highly squeezed as modes exit the horizon. For as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jondalar L. J. Kuß , David J. E. Marsh

We study the role of the Standard Model Higgs condensate, formed during cosmological inflation, in the epoch of reheating that follows. We focus on the scenario where the inflaton decays slowly and perturbatively, so that there is a long…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-23 Samuel Passaglia , Wayne Hu , Andrew J. Long , David Zegeye

In the inflationary scenario all the matter constituting the universe was created from the process of reheating after inflation. Recent development of the theory of reheating is briefly reviewed. The list of topics includes elementary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

We show that reheating of the universe occurs spontaneously in a broad class of inflation models with f(phi)R gravity (phi is inflaton). The model does not require explicit couplings between phi and bosonic or fermionic matter fields. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuki Watanabe , Eiichiro Komatsu

The reheating dynamics after the inflation induced by $R^2$-corrected $f(R)$ model is considered. To avoid the complexity of solving the fourth order equations, we analyze the inflationary and reheating dynamics in the Einstein frame and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hayato Motohashi , Atsushi Nishizawa

We investigate the matter creation processes during the reheating period at the end of inflation in the early Universe, by using the irreversible thermodynamic of open systems. The matter content of the Universe is assumed to consist of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-09 Juntong Su , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang

The aim of this paper is to determine an exact definition of the reheat temperature for a generic perturbative decay of the inflaton. In order to estimate the reheat temperature, there are two important conditions one needs to satisfy: (a)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Anupam Mazumdar , Bryan Zaldívar

We point out that inflaton decay products acquire plasma masses during the reheating phase following inflation. The plasma masses may render inflaton decay kinematicaly forbidden, causing the temperature to remain frozen for a period at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Edward W. Kolb , Alessio Notari , Antonio Riotto

We study the consequences of reheating in quintessential inflation. From simple inflationary quintessential models introduced in cite{hap, hap2}, we show that when the reheating is due to the production of heavy massive particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Jaume de Haro , Llibert Aresté Saló

We propose a mechanism of reheating after inflation in multi-throat scenarios of warped extra dimensions. Validity of an effective field theory on the standard model (SM) brane requires that the position of the SM brane during inflation be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Shinji Mukohyama

Recent progress in the preheating phenomena for inflationary cosmology is reviewed. We first discuss estimates of the preheating time scale and particle production at the early stages of parametric amplification within the Mathieu and Lam'e…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman , J. F. J. Salgado

The inflation within the MSSM is proposed, where the inflaton field is a combination of the Higgs, squark and slepton states. While the inflationary phase is fully governed by the electron Yukawa superpotential coupling, the fields'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-01 Zurab Tavartkiladze

We study the reheating phase following inflation in the context of single-field models, focusing on the perturbative decay of the inflaton into lighter particles. A general analytical framework is presented to compute the reheating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Gabriel German

These lecture notes provide a pedagogical introduction to some aspects of the inflationary cosmology, including the background scalar field dynamics, generation of primordial seed perturbations via quantum fluctuations during inflation, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Swagat S. Mishra

Spectator field models such as the curvaton scenario and the modulated reheating are attractive scenarios for the generation of the cosmic curvature perturbation, as the constraints on inflation models are relaxed. In this paper, we discuss…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Tomohiro Fujita , Keisuke Harigaya

Particle production caused by the oscillation after inflation is important since it explains reheating after inflation. On the particle theory side, we know that effective action may have additional higher dimensional terms (usually called…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Seishi Enomoto , Nobuhiro Maekawa , Tomohiro Matsuda

Among primordial magnetogenesis models, inflation is a prime candidate to explain the current existence of cosmological magnetic fields. Assuming conformal invariance to be restored after inflation, their energy density decreases as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-11 Vittoria Demozzi , Christophe Ringeval

A scenario with two subsequent periods of inflationary expansion in the very early universe is examined. The model is based on a potential motivated by symmetries being found in field theory at high energy. For various parameter sets of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Simon Schettler , Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

We consider the 3-form field, which has been considered as a candidate for realizing inflation, coupled to a scalar field which models the relativistic matter particles produced during the reheating epoch. We have investigated the stability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-03 Antonio De Felice , Khamphee Karwan , Pitayuth Wongjun