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We study in detail (p)reheating after multi-field inflation models with a particular focus on N-flation. We consider a variety of different couplings between the inflatons and the matter sector, including both quartic and trilinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Neil Barnaby , Jonathan Braden , Lev Kofman

We discuss the impact of the preheating stage in radiative corrections due to interaction of the inflaton to fermions to $\phi^4$ inflation with non-minimal coupling in Palatini formulation. In Palatini inflation with large non-minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Nilay Bostan

We study a simple model of a massive inflaton field $\phi$ coupled to another scalar filed $\chi$ with interaction term $g^2\phi^2\chi^2$. We use the theory developed by Kofman {\em et al.} (Phys. Rev. D {\bf 56} (1997) 3258…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Charters , A. Nunes , J. P. Mimoso

We show evidence for a relationship between chaos and parametric resonance both in a classical system and in the semiclassical process of particle creation. We apply our considerations in a toy model for preheating after inflation.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sergio E. Jorás , Victor H. Cárdenas

We have studied the preheating phase for a class of plateau inflationary model considering the four-legs interaction term $(1/2)g^2\phi^2\chi^2$ between the inflaton $(\phi)$ and reheating field $(\chi)$. We specifically focus on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-16 Debaprasad Maity , Pankaj Saha

Fermion creation during preheating in the presence of multiple scalar fields exhibits a range of interesting behaviour relevant to estimating post-inflation gravitino abundances. We present non-perturbative analysis of this phenomenon over…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Shinji Tsujikawa , Bruce A. Bassett , Fermin Viniegra

Homogeneous oscillations of the inflaton after inflation can be unstable to small spatial perturbations even without coupling to other fields. We show that for inflaton potentials $\propto |\phi|^{2n}$ near $|\phi|=0$ and flatter beyond…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Mustafa A. Amin

In inflationary cosmology, the particles constituting the Universe are created after inflation due to their interaction with moving inflaton field(s) in the process of preheating. In the fermionic sector, the leading channel is out-of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick B. Greene , Lev Kofman

Tachyonic preheating is realized when the inflaton repeatedly returns to a convex region of the potential during the post-inflationary oscillating phase. This will induce a strong tachyonic instability and lead to a rapid fragmentation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Niko Koivunen , Eemeli Tomberg , Hardi Veermäe

The dynamics of both the preinflationary and the preheating epochs for a model consisting of a Higgs inflaton plus an additional auxiliary field are studied in full General Relativity. The minimally coupled auxiliary field allows for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Cristian Joana

We study particle production at the preheating era in inflation models with nonminimal coupling $\xi \phi^2R$ and quartic potential $\lambda \phi^4/4$ for several cases: real scalar inflaton, complex scalar inflaton and Abelian Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

Process of preheating for supersymmetric hybrid model of inflation is generally analyzed in two different ways known as parametric resonance and tachyonic preheating. In a common frame-work, we study both the processes from the decay or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-20 Arindam Mazumdar

In this work, we investigate the preheating mechanism after inflation in general scalar-tensor theories of gravity. In the present scenario, we consider two-field scenario and then derive the potential of exponential and hyperbolic tangent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Peeravit Koad , Jatechan Channuie , Phongpichit Channuie

We develop a theory of self-resonance after inflation. We study a large class of models involving multiple scalar fields with an internal symmetry. For illustration, we often specialize to dimension 4 potentials, but we derive results for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 Mark P. Hertzberg , Johanna Karouby , William G. Spitzer , Juana C. Becerra , Lanqing Li

The paradigm of the inflationary universe provides a possible explanation for several observed cosmological properties. In order for such solutions to be successful, the universe must convert the energy stored in the inflaton potential into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Leia Barrowes , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch , John T. Giblin, , Scott Watson

Here, we revisit the question of possible preheating of entropy modes in a two field model with a massless inflaton coupled to a matter scalar field. Using a perturbative approximation to the covariant method we demonstrate that there is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-09 Hossein Bazrafshan Moghaddam , Robert H. Brandenberger , Yi-Fu Cai , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

We analyse the dynamics of spinodal decomposition in inflationary cosmology using the closed time path formalism of out of equilibrium quantum field theory combined with the non-perturbative Hartree approximation. In addition to a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Cormier , R. Holman

In this paper, nonperturbative lattice simulations are used to study Higgs preheating and the associated gravitational wave (GW) background after the inflaton $Z_2$ symmetry is broken during inflation. This symmetry breaking generates both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Hua Zhou , Qing Yu , Wei Cheng , Ruo-Peng Zhang

A numerical study of a pseudoscalar inflation having an axion-photon-like coupling is performed by solving numerically the coupled differential equations of motion for inflaton and photon mode functions from the onset of inflation to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Shu-Lin Cheng , Wolung Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

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