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CMB lensing reconstructions are a sensitive probe of the growth of structure across cosmic time and a key tool to sharpen investigations of the very early Universe via delensing. At present, a large fraction of this information is drawn…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 A. Baleato Lizancos , W. Coulton , A. Challinor , B. D. Sherwin , Y. Mehta

We study the sensitivity of cosmological observables to the reheating phase following inflation driven by many scalar fields. We describe a method which allows semi-analytic treatment of the impact of perturbative reheating on cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Selim C. Hotinli , Jonathan Frazer , Andrew H. Jaffe , Joel Meyers , Layne C. Price , Ewan R. M. Tarrant

The reheating process in inflationary universe models is considered as an out-of-equilibrium mixture of two interacting and reacting fluids, and studied within the framework of causal, irreversible thermodynamics. The evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Winfried Zimdahl , Diego Pavón , Roy Maartens

Cosmological reheating bridges the inflationary epoch and the hot big bang phase, yet its underlying dynamics remain poorly understood. In this work, we investigate a minimal scenario in which the inflaton evolves under a simple power-law…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Kunio Kaneta , Tomo Takahashi , Natsumi Watanabe

In the recent sixth data release (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, the value of $n_{\rm s}=0.9743 \pm 0.0034$ for the scalar spectral index is reported, which excludes the Starobinsky and Higgs inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 D. S. Zharov , O. O. Sobol , S. I. Vilchinskii

We present iterative Monte Carlo algorithm for which the temperature variable is attracted by a critical point. The algorithm combines techniques of single histogram reweighting and linear filtering. The 2d Ising model of ferromagnet is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Gmitra , D. Horvath

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

The allowed range of parameters for supersymmetric hybrid inflation and its extensions are investigated. The lower bound on the reheat temperature T_r in these models with hierarchical right handed neutrinos is found to be 3*10^7 GeV. (T_r…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. N. Senoguz , Q. Shafi

We investigate a constraint on reheating followed by alpha-attractor-type inflation (the E-model and T-model) from an observation of the spectral index n_s. When the energy density of the universe is dominated by an energy component with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Yoshiki Ueno , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

We examine the particle production via preheating at the end of inflation in supersymmetric theories. The inflaton and matter scalars are now necessarily complex fields, and their relevant interactions are restricted by holomorphy. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Z. Chacko , H. Murayama , M. Perelstein

We study reconstruction of the lensing potential power spectrum from CMB temperature data, with an eye to the Planck experiment. We work with the optimal quadratic estimator of Okamoto and Hu, which we characterize thoroughly in application…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-23 Duncan Hanson , Anthony Challinor , George Efstathiou , Pawel Bielewicz

We investigate the gauged Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model in curved spacetime at the large $N_c$ limit and in slow-roll approximation. The model can be described by the renormalization group corrected gauge-Higgs-Yukawa theory with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Tomohiro Inagaki , Sergei D. Odintsov , Hiroki Sakamoto

We calculate high-precision constraints on Natural Inflation relative to current observational constraints from Planck 2018 + BICEP/Keck(BK15) Polarization + BAO on $r$ and $n_S$, including post-inflationary history of the universe. We find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Nina K. Stein , William H. Kinney

Polynomial inflation is a very simple and well motivated scenario. A potential with a concave ``almost'' saddle point at field value $\phi = \phi_0$ fits well the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and makes testable predictions for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-28 Manuel Drees , Yong Xu

A thorough MCMC analysis of any inflationary model against the current cosmological data is essential for assessing the validity of such a model as a viable inflationary model. Warm Inflation, producing both thermal and quantum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Umang Kumar , Suratna Das

We study the tachyon inflation in the presence of the superpotential as an inflationary potential. We study the primordial perturbations and their non-gaussian feature in the equilateral configuration. We use the Planck2018 TT, TE,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-18 Narges Rashidi

We study $\alpha$-attractor models with both E-model and T-model potential in an extended Non-Minimal Derivative (NMD) inflation where a canonical scalar field and its derivatives are non-minimally coupled to gravity. We calculate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-19 Raheleh Shojaee , Kourosh Nozari , Farhad Darabi

Recent blazar observations provide growing evidence for the presence of magnetic fields in the extragalactic regions. While a natural speculation is to associate the production to inflationary physics, it has been known that magnetogenesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Namba

A detailed investigation of hybrid inflation and the subsequent reheating process is performed within a mu problem solving supersymmetric model based on a left-right symmetric gauge group. The process of baryogenesis via leptogenesis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Lazarides , N. D. Vlachos

We revisit the constraints that Planck 2015 temperature, polarization and lensing data impose on the parameters of warm inflation. To this end, we study warm inflation driven by a single scalar field with a quartic self interaction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-26 Richa Arya , Arnab Dasgupta , Gaurav Goswami , Jayanti Prasad , Raghavan Rangarajan