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We use lattice simulations to examine the detailed dynamics of inflaton fragmentation during and after preheating in $\lambda \phi^4$ chaotic inflation. The dynamics are qualitatively similar to preheating after $m^2 \phi^2$ inflation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Gary N Felder , Olga Navros

We study the instability of a scalar field at the end of hybrid inflation, using both analytical techniques and numerical simulations. We improve previous studies by taking the inflaton field fully into account, and show that the range of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 E. J. Copeland , S. Pascoli , A. Rajantie

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

Evidence from the BICEP2 experiment for a significant gravitational-wave background has focussed attention on inflaton potentials $V(\phi) \propto \phi^\alpha$ with $\alpha=2$ ("chaotic" or "$m^2\phi^2$" inflation) or with smaller values of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski , Junpu Wang

We investigate the particle production due to parametric resonances in model of inflation where the lightest composite state stemming from the minimal walking technicolor theory plays the role of the inflaton. For model of inflation, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 Phongpichit Channuie , Peeravit Koad

We focus on the inflationary predictions of $\beta$-exponential potential models, in which the inflaton is a representation of the field delineating the size of extra-dimension. Since it offers a well-motivated starting point for the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Nilay Bostan , Rafid H. Dejrah

We consider the nonlinear dynamics of inflaton fragmentation during and after preheating in the simplest model of chaotic inflation. While the earlier regime of parametric resonant particle production and the later turbulent regime of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gary N. Felder , Lev Kofman

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

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

We study preheating after hilltop inflation where the inflaton couples to another scalar field, e.g. a right-handed sneutrino, which provides a mechanism for generating the correct initial conditions for inflation and also a decay channel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-26 Stefan Antusch , Francesco Cefala , David Nolde , Stefano Orani

It has recently been suggested that at the post-inflationary stage of the mixed Higgs-$R^2$ model of inflation efficient particle production can arise from the tachyonic instability of the Higgs field. It might complete the preheating of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Minxi He , Ryusuke Jinno , Kohei Kamada , Alexei A. Starobinsky , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We consider tachyonic warm-inflationary models in the context of intermediate inflation. We derive the characteristics of this model in slow-roll approximation and develop our model in two cases, 1- For a constant dissipative parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

In the framework of classical scale invariance, we consider quadratic gravity in the Palatini formalism and investigate the inflationary predictions of the theory. Our model corresponds to a two-field scalar-tensor theory, that involves the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ioannis D. Gialamas , Alexandros Karam , Thomas D. Pappas , Vassilis C. Spanos

Reheating after inflation occurs due to particle production by the oscillating inflaton field. In this paper we describe the perturbative approach to reheating, and then concentrate on effects beyond the perturbation theory. They are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Alexei Starobinsky

Particle production and its effects on the inflaton field are investigated during the preheating phase of chaotic inflation using a model consisting of a massive scalar inflaton field coupled to N massless quantum scalar fields. The effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-07 Paul R. Anderson , Carmen Molina-Paris , David Evanich , Gregory B. Cook

We discuss the reheating temperature in the instant preheating scenario. In this scenario, at the last stage of inflation, the inflaton field first decays into another scalar field with an enormous number density via the instant preheating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Takeshi Fukuyama , Tatsuru Kikuchi , Wade Naylor

We study chaotic dynamics in preheating after inflation in which an inflaton $\phi$ is coupled to another scalar field $\chi$ through an interaction $(1/2)g^2\phi^2\chi^2$. We first estimate the size of the quasi-homogeneous field $\chi$ at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshida Jin , Shinji Tsujikawa

The curvaton reheating in a tachyonic braneworld inflationary universe model with an exponential potential is studied. We have found that the energy density in the kinetic epoch, has a complicated dependencies of the scale factor. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Cuauhtemoc Campuzano , Sergio del Campo , Ramon Herrera

Single field inflationary models are investigated within Palatini quadratic gravity represented by $R+\alpha R^2$ along with a non-minimal coupling of the form $f(\phi) R$ between the inflaton field $\phi$ and the gravity. The treatment is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Mahmoud AlHallak

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