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We point out that inflaton decay products acquire plasma masses during the reheating phase following inflation. The plasma masses may render inflaton decay kinematicaly forbidden, causing the temperature to remain frozen for a period at a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Edward W. Kolb , Alessio Notari , Antonio Riotto

Preheating at the end of inflation is a violent nonlinear process that efficiently transfers the energy of the inflaton to a second field, the preheat field. When the preheat field is light during inflation and its background value…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Zhiqi Huang , Xichang Ouyang , Yu Cui , Jianqi Liu , Yanhong Yao , Zehong Qiu , Guangyao Yu , Lu Huang , Zhuoyang Li , Chi-Fong Wong

Motivated by our earlier paper \cite{am}, we discuss how the infamous gravitino problem has a natural built in solution within supersymmetry. Supersymmetry allows a large number of flat directions made up of {\it gauge invariant}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Anupam Mazumdar

We discuss production of heavy partciles during reheating. We find that the very energetic inflaton decay products can contribute to the production of massive stable particles, either through collisions with the thermal plasma, or through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Manuel Drees

The theory of reheating of the Universe after inflation is developed. The transition from inflation to the hot Universe turns out to be strongly model-dependent and typically consists of several stages. Immediately after inflation the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Alexei Starobinsky

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

We propose a holographic description of cosmic preheating at strong coupling. In this scenario the energy transfer between the inflaton and matter field is mimicked by a model of holographic superconductor. An exponential amplification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Yi-Fu Cai , Shu Lin , Junyu Liu , Jia-Rui Sun

We consider an extended version of superconformal subcritical hybrid inflation model by introducing three right-handed neutrinos that have the Majorana mass terms. In the model one of the right-handed sneutrinos plays a role of the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Yoshihiro Gunji , Koji Ishiwata

The WIMPzilla hypothesis is that the dark matter is a super-weakly-interacting and super-heavy particle. Conventionally, the WIMPzilla abundance is set by gravitational particle production during or at the end of inflation. In this study we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Rocky W. Kolb , Andrew J. Long

The transition from the end of inflation to a hot, thermal Universe, commonly referred to as (re)heating, is a critical yet often misunderstood phase in early Universe cosmology. This short review aims to provide a comprehensive,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Basabendu Barman , Nicolás Bernal , Javier Rubio

In this brief review we will discuss how a well motivated particle theory beyond the eletroweak Standard Model provides ingredients and conditions for a successful inflation. We will mainly focus on a low energy supersymmetric Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-26 A. Mazumdar

One of the fundamental problems of modern cosmology is to explain the origin of all the matter and radiation in the Universe today. The inflationary model predicts that the oscillations of the scalar field at the end of inflation will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan Garcia-Bellido

Inflaton couplings during warm inflation result in the production of a thermal bath. Thermal friction and fluctuations can dominate the standard de Sitter analogues, resulting in a modified slow-roll scenario with a new source of density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-22 Edward Broadberry , Anson Hook , Sagnik Mondal

Preheating following the inflationary phase in models of open inflation is considered. The most significant difference from a preheating scenario in flat space is that supercurvature modes can be populated and amplified in the open…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David I. Kaiser

We explicitly calculate nonthermal gravitino production during the preheating period in the inflationary Universe. Contrary to earlier investigations, we consider a two--field model to separate the mechanisms of supersymmetry breaking and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 H. P. Nilles , M. Peloso , L. Sorbo

Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Matter particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We give a review of the reheating process, focusing on an in-depth discussion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-03 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Robert Brandenberger , Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Anupam Mazumdar

Preheating after inflation may over-produce primordial black holes (PBH's) in many regions of parameter space. As an example we study two-field models with a massless self-interacting inflaton, taking into account second order field and…

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

By using a No-Scale Supergravity model, which was proved well to explain WMAP observations appropriately, a mechanism of preheating just after the end of inflation is investigated. By using the canonically normalized and diagonalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-03-03 Yuta Koshimizu , Toyokazu Fukuoka , Kenji Takagi , Hikoya Kasari , Mitsuo J. Hayashi

We demonstrate that violent kinetic preheating following inflation can lead to the formation of black holes in the early Universe. In $\alpha$-attractor models with derivative inflaton couplings, nonlinear amplification of field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Peter Adshead , Eve Currens , John T. Giblin

At the end of inflation, dynamical instability can rapidly deposit the energy of homogeneous cold inflaton into excitations of other fields. This process, known as preheating, is rather violent, inhomogeneous and non-linear, and has to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 Andrei V. Frolov