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During the last ten years a detailed investigation of preheating was performed for chaotic inflation and for hybrid inflation. However, nonperturbative effects during reheating in the new inflation scenario remained practically unexplored.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Mariel Desroche , Gary N. Felder , Jan M. Kratochvil , Andrei Linde

We study (p)reheating in alpha-attractor T-models of inflation, taking into account both scalar fields present in these models: the inflaton and the spectator. The two-field model has a negative field-space curvature which, at the end of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Tomasz Krajewski , Krzysztof Turzyński , Michał Wieczorek

Cosmological perturbations in warm inflation are conventionally described by an EFT. It consists of the inflaton field coupled to a radiation fluid and applies to energy scales of order Hubble $H$ and inflaton decay width $\gamma$, but well…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Mehrdad Mirbabayi

We discuss and clarify the validity of effective single field theories of inflation obtained by integrating out heavy degrees of freedom in the regime where adiabatic perturbations propagate with a suppressed speed of sound. We show by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-17 Ana Achucarro , Vicente Atal , Sebastian Cespedes , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Gonzalo A. Palma , Subodh P. Patil

In this work, we investigate the preheating mechanism in a disformally-coupled inflationary model where the scalar field $\phi$ (which is the inflaton field) naturally coupled to another matter field $\chi$ induced by the disformal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Khamphee Karwan , Phongpichit Channuie

We investigate the feasibility of explosive particle production via parametric resonance or tachyonic preheating in multi-field inflationary models by means of lattice simulations. We observe a strong suppression of resonances in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-03 Diana Battefeld , Thorsten Battefeld , John T. Giblin

Nonintegrable systems thermalize, leading to the emergence of fluctuating hydrodynamics. Typically, this hydrodynamics is diffusive. We use the effective field theory (EFT) of diffusion to compute higher-point functions of conserved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-14 Luca V. Delacretaz , Ruchira Mishra

We build an effective field theory (EFT) for quasicrystals -- aperiodic incommensurate lattice structures -- at finite temperature, entirely based on symmetry arguments and a well-define action principle. By means of Schwinger-Keldysh…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-04 Matteo Baggioli , Michael Landry

We consider effective field theories (EFTs) of scalar fields with broken Lorentz boosts, which arise by taking the decoupling and flat-space limits of the EFT of inflation, and derive constraints that must be satisfied by the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Zongzhe Du , David Stefanyszyn

We present an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism which describes the dynamics of non-relativistic extended objects coupled to gravity. The formalism is relevant to understanding the gravitational radiation power spectra emitted by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Walter D. Goldberger , Ira Z. Rothstein

We investigate the soft behaviour of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) when there is a number of distinct derivative power counting parameters, $\rho_1< \rho_2<\ldots < \rho_Q$. We clarify the notion of an enhanced soft limit and use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Antonio Padilla , David Stefanyszyn , Toby Wilson

Effective field theories (EFTs) of heavy particles coupled to the inflaton are rife with operator redundancies, frequently obscured by sensitivity to both boundary terms and field redefinitions. We initiate a systematic study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Nathaniel Craig , Soubhik Kumar , Amara McCune

Effective field theories offer a powerful method to unify diverse models under a small set of control parameters, allowing systematic expansions around well-established theories. These techniques, developed in particle physics, were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Thomas Colas

We show that effective field theory techniques can be applied in the high temperature $T$ regime of plasmas to improve the accuracy of the physics of the hard scales (or scales of order $T$), and as a by-product, also that of the soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Cristina Manuel , Joan Soto , Stephan Stetina

We provide a compact and unified treatment of power spectrum observables for the effective field theory (EFT) of inflation with the complete set of operators that lead to second-order equations of motion in metric perturbations in both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-15 Hayato Motohashi , Wayne Hu

The inflationary dynamics and preheating in a model with a non-minimally coupled inflaton field in the metric and Palatini formalisms are studied in this paper. We find that in both formalisms, irrespective of the initial conditions, our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-26 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We present a study of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) generalization of stochastic inflation in a model-independent single-field framework and its impact on primordial black hole (PBH) formation. We show how the Langevin equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-24 Sayantan Choudhury , Ahaskar Karde , Pankaj Padiyar , M. Sami

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

We apply the effective field theory approach to quasi-single field inflation, which contains an additional scalar field with Hubble scale mass other than inflaton. Based on the time-dependent spatial diffeomorphism, which is not broken by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Toshifumi Noumi , Masahide Yamaguchi , Daisuke Yokoyama

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer