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We consider the production of matter and radiation during reheating after inflation, restricting our attention solely to gravitational interactions. Processes considered are the exchange of a graviton, $h_{\mu \nu}$, involved in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Simon Clery , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

The production of GWs during preheating in the Starobinsky model with a nonminimally coupled auxiliary scalar field is studied through the lattice simulation in this paper. We find that the GW spectrum $\Omega_{\rm gw}$ grows fast with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Guoqiang Jin , Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

The big bang model and the history of the early universe according to the grand unified theories are introduced. The shortcomings of big bang are discussed together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology. Inflation, the subsequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Lazarides

In the canonical tachyonic resonance preheating scenario, only an order one fraction of energy density in the inflaton is transferred to radiation, due to backreaction effects. One possible way to improve the energy transfer efficiency is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Gareth Mansfield , JiJi Fan , Qianshu Lu

It is shown, using quantum field theory in curved spacetime, how the expansion of the universe during inflation produces an aggregate of particles and inflaton vacuum fluctuations at a temperature of 5x10^17GeV and dense enough to make…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Max Chaves

The quantum gravitational back-reaction on inflation is based on the self-gravitation of infrared gravitons which are ripped out of the vacuum during inflation. The only quantum part of this process is the creation of gravitons; after they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

Whereas preheating after chaotic and hybrid inflation models has been abundantly studied in the literature, preheating in small field inflation models, where the curvature of the inflaton potential is negative during inflation, remains less…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Philippe Brax , Jean-Francois Dufaux , Sophie Mariadassou

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 analyze the evolution of the perturbations in the inflaton field and metric following the end of inflation. We present accurate analytic approximations for the perturbations, showing that the coherent oscillations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Richard Easther , Raphael Flauger , James B. Gilmore

In this talk recent developments of the theory of preheating after inflation are briefly reviewed. In inflationary cosmology, the particles constituting the Universe are created after inflation due to their interaction with moving inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lev Kofman

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

We investigate a novel gravitational wave (GW) production mechanism from gravitons generated during the pre-thermal phase of cosmic reheating, where the energy density is dominated by non-thermalized inflaton decay products, dubbed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Nicolás Bernal , Quan-feng Wu , Xun-Jie Xu , Yong Xu

We study Weyl-invariant purely gravitational theories formulated within the Einstein-Cartan framework. In the Einstein-frame description, these models are dynamically equivalent to standard general relativity coupled to an axion-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Ioannis D. Gialamas

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

We study an inflation model with a flat scalar potential supported by observations and find that slow-roll inflation can emerge after a quasi-cyclic phase of the Universe, where it undergoes repeated expansions and contractions for a finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Hiroki Matsui , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

Gravitino problem is discussed in detail. We derive an upperbound on the reheating temperature from the constraints of the big-bang nucleosynthesis and the present mass density of the universe. Compared to previous works, we have improve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Takeo Moroi

The early Universe inflation is well known as a promising theory to explain the origin of large scale structure of the Universe, a causal theory for the origin of primordial density fluctuations which may explain the observed density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-he Meng

Starting with the Lagrangian formulation of General Relativity, we will conduct an investigation into the production of spacetime waves, due to a geometric boundary term of a closed extended manifold, within the tensor and scalar sectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-24 Rafael Hernández-Jiménez , Claudia Moreno

Connecting inflation with neutrino physics through non-thermal leptogenesis via direct inflaton-right-handed neutrino (RHN) coupling naturally incorporates neutrino reheating, leaving no ambiguity regarding the early history of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Xinyi Zhang

As long-lived quasi-solitons from the fragmentation of a scalar condensate, oscillons may dominate the preheating era after inflation. During this period, stochastic gravitational waves can also be generated. We quantify the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Xiao-Xiao Kou , James B. Mertens , Chi Tian , Shuang-Yong Zhou