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We study preheating in the Palatini formalism with a quadratic inflaton potential and an added $\alpha R^2$ term. In such models, the oscillating inflaton field repeatedly returns to the plateau of the Einstein frame potential, on which the…

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We investigate a compelling model of quintessential inflation in the context of $\alpha$-attractors, which naturally result in a scalar potential featuring two flat regions, the inflationary plateau and the quintessential tail. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Leonora Donaldson Wood , Charlotte Owen

In $\mu$-hybrid inflation a nonzero inflaton vacuum expectation value induced by supersymmetry breaking is proportional to the gravitino mass $m_{3/2}$, which can be exploited to resolve the minimal supersymmetric standard model $\mu$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-11 Mansoor Ur Rehman , Qaisar Shafi , Fariha K. Vardag

We consider the 3-form field, which has been considered as a candidate for realizing inflation, coupled to a scalar field which models the relativistic matter particles produced during the reheating epoch. We have investigated the stability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-03 Antonio De Felice , Khamphee Karwan , Pitayuth Wongjun

We study preheating via kinetic couplings after dilaton-axion $\alpha$-attractor inflation. We focus on E-model $\alpha$-attractor driven inflation where the inflaton is kinetically coupled to an ultralight axion. In this class of models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson

We propose a new mechanism of non-thermal particle production during inflation based on a narrow parametric resonance, akin to the dynamics of post-inflationary preheating. The mechanism is based on the production of scalar particles with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Diogo S. Gorgulho , João G. Rosa

We investigate a possibility of reheating in a scenario of D-brane inflation in a warped deformed conifold background which includes perturbative corrections to throat geometry sourced by chiral operator of dimension 3/2 in the CFT. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-25 Sudhakar Panda , M. Sami , I. Thongkool

We analyse the reheating in the modification of \nuMSM (Standard Model with three right handed neutrinos with masses below the electroweak scale) where the sterile neutrino providing the Dark Matter is generated in decays of the additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Alexey Anisimov , Yannick Bartocci , Fedor L. Bezrukov

We consider the inflaton as a scalar field described by a non-minimal derivative coupling model with a power law potential. We study the slow roll inflation, the rapid oscillation phase, the radiation dominated and the recombination eras…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Mohseni Sadjadi , Parviz Goodarzi

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

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 study cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) in Higgs inflation, wherein the inflaton is a scalar field with quartic self-coupling $\lambda$ and a nonminimal coupling to gravity $\xi$, and which may, but need not be, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Tammi Chowdhury , Leah Jenks , Edward W. Kolb , Evan McDonough

We explore novel generation of genuine multipartite entanglement within gravitational particle production processes during inflationary stages. To this end, we focus on perturbative production mechanisms, considering a non-minimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Belfiglio , Roberto Franzosi , Orlando Luongo

Despite having important cosmological implications, the reheating phase is believed to play a crucial role in cosmology and particle physics model building. Conventionally, the model of reheating with an arbitrary coupling of inflaton to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-13 Md Riajul Haque , Debaprasad Maity , Rajesh Mondal

In inflationary cosmology, the particles constituting the Universe are created after inflation in the process of reheating due to the interaction with the oscillating inflaton field. We briefly review the basics of the slow reheating, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

A fundamental prediction of inflation is a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of gravitational wave. The features of such a signal provide extremely important information about the physics of the early universe. In this paper, we focus on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Xi-Bin Li , He Wang , Jian-Yang Zhu

Reheating is a transition era after the end of inflation, during which the inflaton is converted into the particles that populate the Universe at later times. No direct cosmological observables are normally traceable to this period of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jessica L. Cook , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Damien A. Easson , Lawrence M. Krauss

Reheating after R^2 inflation proceeds through gravitational particle production of conformally noninvariant fields. We argue that the nonvanishing expectation value of flat directions generic in supersymmetric theories break conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-05 Yuki Watanabe , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

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

In this paper, we discuss the constraints on the reheating temperature supposing an early post-reheating cosmological phase dominated by one or more simple scalar fields produced from inflaton decay and decoupled from matter and radiation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Alessandro Di Marco , Gianfranco Pradisi , Paolo Cabella