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Criteria for the existence of de Sitter inflation with dilaton fields in four-dimensional space-times with torsion is discussed.The relation between matter density perturbation and the spin-density perturbation is stablished based on this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

We consider the Higgs inflation in the extension of the Standard Model with two Higgs doublets coupled to gravity non-minimally. In the presence of an approximate global U(1) symmetry in the Higgs sector, both radial and angular modes of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Sin Kyu Kang , Hyun Min Lee

We explain how a $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory, decoupled from the standard model and with a high-lying strong coupling scale, can incorporate apparently unrelated cosmological features, such as Inflation and dark matter, using well-understood…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-08 Melissa Mendes , Giorgio Torrieri

We study cosmological evolution after inflation in models with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity. The background dynamics is solved and particle production associated with rapidly oscillating Hubble parameter is studied in detail.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

Thermal history after inflation is studied in a chaotic inflation model with supersymmetric couplings of the inflaton to matter fields. Time evolution equation is solved in a formalism that incorporates both the back reaction of particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Fujisaki , K. Kumekawa , M. Yamaguchi , M. Yoshimura

Cosmic acceleration is widely believed to require either a source of negative pressure (i.e., dark energy), or a modification of gravity, which necessarily implies new degrees of freedom beyond those of Einstein gravity. In this paper we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury , Junpu Wang

We consider the modified gravity non-minimally coupled with matter Lagrangian for the description of early-time and late-time universe. Such $F(R)$ ($F(G)$) gravity in the absence of non-minimal coupling is viable theory which passes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Petr V. Tretyakov

We consider cosmology of the recently introduced mimetic matter with higher derivatives (HD). Without HD this system describes irrotational dust - Dark Matter (DM) as we see it on cosmologically large scales. DM particles correspond to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Leila Mirzagholi , Alexander Vikman

Following our previous work, we continue to explore gravitational dark matter production during the minimal preheating caused by inflaton self-resonance. In this situation there is only one dimensionless index parameter $n$ characterizing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-12 Ruopeng Zhang , Sibo Zheng

We investigate the gravitational particle production from vacuum for a minimally coupled fermionic spectator field during a single-field inflationary phase. We observe that metric perturbations arising from the quantum fluctuations of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo

If cosmic inflation was driven by an electrically neutral scalar field stable on cosmological time scales, the field necessarily constitutes all or part of dark matter (DM). We study this possibility in a scenario where the inflaton field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Juan P. Beltrán Almeida , Nicolás Bernal , Javier Rubio , Tommi Tenkanen

We discuss the possibility of unifying dark matter physics and inflation in the $Z_5$ model of the two-component dark matter. Inflation driven by the two-component dark matter fields can be divided into two cases, singlet dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-29 XinXin Qi , Hao Sun

We study a new mechanism for the production of dark matter in the universe which does not rely on thermal equilibrium. Dark matter is populated from the thermal bath subsequent to inflationary reheating via a massive mediator whose mass is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-19 Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Jeremie Quevillon , Bryan Zaldivar

If a light axion is present during inflation and becomes part of dark matter afterwards, its quantum fluctuations contribute to dark matter isocurvature. In this article, we introduce a whole new suite of cosmological observables for axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Xingang Chen , JiJi Fan , Lingfeng Li

We develop a quantum theory of inflaton and its decay product of various gauge boson pairs to investigate the preheating towards thermalized universe. The inflaton decay into gauge-boson pairs is shown to be inevitably accompanied by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-26 Kunio Kaneta , Kin-ya Oda , Motohiko Yoshimura

A recent hint reported by the TASEH haloscope suggests the possible detection of dark photon dark matter with mass $19.5~{\rm \mu eV}$. Due to their production during inflation, dark photons act as unique messengers from this primordial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 Pierluca Carenza , Tassia Ferreira , Thong T. Q. Nguyen

We study the post-inflationary dynamics for reheating and freeze-in dark matter in the Higgs-$R^2$ inflation model. Taking the perturbative approach for reheating, we determine the evolution of the temperature for radiation bath produced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Shuntaro Aoki , Hyun Min Lee , Adriana G. Menkara , Kimiko Yamashita

We present a unified model where the same scalar field can drive inflation and account for the present dark matter abundance. This scenario is based on the incomplete decay of the inflaton field into right-handed neutrino pairs, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-14 Antonio Torres Manso , Joao G. Rosa

From a model-building perspective, the inflationary sector might very well have no direct couplings to other species, apart from inevitable gravitational interactions. Within the context of General Relativity, a thermal universe can still…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-11 Daniel G. Figueroa , Erwin H. Tanin

Motivated by the recently proposed Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture (TCC), we propose a gauged $B-L$ model of inflection-point inflation with axion dark matter. The Hubble scale during inflation ($H_{\rm inf}$) satisfies the TCC bound…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Nobuchika Okada , Digesh Raut , Qaisar Shafi