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Preheating after inflation may lead to nonthermal phase transitions with symmetry restoration. These phase transitions may occur even if the total energy density of fluctuations produced during reheating is relatively small as compared with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gary Felder , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Igor Tkachev

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 an inflationary scenario in supergravity model with a gauge kinetic function. We find exact anisotropic power-law inflationary solutions when both the potential function for an inflaton and the gauge kinetic function are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-10 Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda , Masa-aki Watanabe

We investigate an inflationary scenario driven by a complex scalar field nonminimally coupled to gravity and subject to a non-symmetric complex potential. The real part of the potential controls the cosmological background and realizes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 S. D. Campos

It is shown that perturbative reheating can reach a sufficiently high temperature with small or negligible inflaton decay rate provided that the inflaton potential becomes negative after inflation. In our model, inflaton and dark energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-17 HoSeong La

We consider a non-minimally coupled inflaton, in a higher order curvature background, leading to a potential which evolves with the curvature scalar of the Universe, and which describes two regimes. The first one is a de Sitter phase, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jean Alexandre

We use lattice methods to perform the first nonlinear study of preheating in $R^2$-healed Higgs inflation for "$R^2$-like" parameters $1.1\times 10^9$ and $1.8\times 10^9$ where the curvature-squared coupling $\beta$ and nonminimal coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Fedor Bezrukov , Chris Shepherd

A model of inflation is presented where the inflaton field is a complex scalar field coupled to a U(1) gauge field. Due to the axial symmetry of the potential, the inflation is driven by the radial direction while the angular field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Razieh Emami , Hassan Firouzjahi , M. Sadegh Movahed

We study inflationary models based on a non-minimal coupling of a singlet scalar to gravity, focussing on the preheating dynamics and the unitarity issues in this regime. If the scalar does not have significant couplings to other fields,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Oleg Lebedev , Yann Mambrini , Jong-Hyun Yoon

In this work, we investigate warm inflationary models in the context of a general scalar-tensor theory of gravity which is coupled to radiation through a dissipation term. We first derive the potential of exponential and hyperbolic tangent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Waluka Amake , Apirak Payaka , Phongpichit Channuie

The study of reheating in inflationary models is crucial for understanding the early universe and gaining insights into inflationary dynamics and parameters. The reheating temperature $T_{re}$ and the duration of the reheating phase,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Gabriel German , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Luis E. Padilla

We study the primordial perturbations and reheating process in the models where the Gauss-Bonnet term is non-minimally coupled to the canonical and non-canonical (DBI and tachyon) scalar fields. We consider several potentials and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-18 Narges Rashidi , Kourosh Nozari

We discuss inflation in models with large extra dimensions, driven by a bulk scalar field. The brane inflaton is then a single effective field, obtained from the bulk scalar field by scaling. The self interaction terms of the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Mohapatra , A. Pérez-Lorenzana , C. A. de S. Pires

At high e-foldings of expansion, the inflation with the quartic potential exhibits the parametric attractor governed by the slowly running Hubble rate. This quasiattractor simplifies the analysis of predictions for the inhomogeneity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-11 V. V. Kiselev , S. A. Timofeev

Inflation is known to produce large infrared scalar fluctuations. Further, if a scalar field $(\chi)$ is non-minimally coupled with gravity through $\xi \chi^2 R$, those infrared modes experience \textit{tachyonic instability} during and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ayan Chakraborty , Debaprasad Maity , Rajesh Mondal

We study the preheating and the in-process production of gravitational waves (GWs) after inflation in which the inflaton is nonminimally coupled to the curvature in a self-interacting quartic potential with the method of lattice simulation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-02 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We investigate the possibility that the inflaton, in particular in conformal inflation models, is also a chameleon, i.e. that it couples to the energy density of some heavy non-relativistic matter present during inflation. We find new and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Heliudson Bernardo , Renato Costa , Horatiu Nastase , Amanda Weltman

We study preheating in models where the inflaton has a non-canonical kinetic term, containing powers of the usual kinetic energy. The inflaton field oscillating about its potential minimum acts as a driving force for particle production…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-29 Johanna Karouby , Bret Underwood , Aaron C. Vincent

We consider $R^2$ inflation in the Palatini gravity assuming the existence of scalar fields, coupled to gravity in the most general manner. These theories, in the Einstein frame, and for one scalar field $h$, share common features with $K$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 Ioannis D. Gialamas , A. B. Lahanas

We are in the era of precision cosmology which offers us a unique opportunity to investigate beyond standard model physics. Toward this endeavor, inflaton is assumed to be a perfect new physics candidate. In this submission, we explore the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Ayan Chakraborty , Md Riajul Haque , Debaprasad Maity , Rajesh Mondal