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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

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

We study the post-inflationary energy transfer from the inflaton ($\phi$) into a scalar field ($\chi$) non-minimally coupled to gravity through $\xi R|\chi|^2$, considering models with inflaton potential $V_{\rm inf} \propto |\phi|^{\,p}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Daniel G. Figueroa , Nicolas Loayza

The inflationary dynamics and preheating in a model with a non-minimally coupled inflaton field in the metric and Palatini formalisms are studied in this paper. We find that in both formalisms, irrespective of the initial conditions, our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-26 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

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

We consider a theory of a scalar one-component field $\phi$ coupled to a scalar $N$-component field $\chi$. Using large $N$ techiques we calculate the effective potential in the leading order in $1/N$. We show that this is equivalent to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 J. A. Adams , N. Tetradis

The combined Planck, BICEP/Keck Array and BAO measurements of the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio from the cosmic microwave background observations severely constrain or completely rule out several models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Diganta Das , Shreyas Revankar

We present a simple formula that allows to calculate the value of the inflaton field, denoted by $\phi$, at the scale with wavenumber mode $k$. In the extreme case of instantaneous reheating $\phi_k$ is calculated exactly and all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-26 Gabriel German

We characterize the post-inflationary dynamics of an inflaton $\phi$ coupled to multiple interacting daughter fields $X_n$ ($n=1,\dots N_d$) through quadratic-quadratic interactions $g_n^ 2\phi^2 X_n^2$. We assume a monomial inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Stefan Antusch , Kenneth Marschall , Francisco Torrenti

By assuming the kinetic coupling $f^{2}(\phi)FF$ of the effective inflaton field $\phi$ with the electromagnetic field, we explore magnetogenesis during the inflation and preheating stages in the Starobinsky model. We consider the case of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-27 S. Vilchinskii , O. Sobol , E. V. Gorbar , I. Rudenok

We study the problem of scalar particle production after inflation by a rapidly oscillating inflaton field. We use the framework of the chaotic inflation scenario with quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials. Particular attention is paid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Shtanov , J. Traschen , R. Brandenberger

We consider the nonlinear dynamics of inflaton fragmentation during and after preheating in the simplest model of chaotic inflation. While the earlier regime of parametric resonant particle production and the later turbulent regime of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gary N. Felder , Lev Kofman

We calculate particle production during inflation and in the early stages of reheating after inflation in models with a charged scalar field coupled to Abelian and non-Abelian gauge fields. A detailed analysis of the power spectra of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-20 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Mustafa A. Amin

In this paper, we study the generation of a large scale magnetic field with amplitude of order $\mu$G in an inflationary model which has been introduced in hep-th/0310221. This inflationary model based on existence of a speed limit for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Mohammad A. Ganjali

We investigate preheating in a higher-dimensional generalized Kaluza-Klein theory with a quadratic inflaton potential $V(\phi)=\frac12 m^2\phi^2$ including metric perturbations explicitly. The system we consider is the multi-field model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Tsujikawa

We review results of a numerical study of resonant inflaton decay in a wide range of realistic models and parameters. Wide enough parametric resonance can withstand the expansion of the Universe, though account for the expansion is very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. I. Tkachev

We use classical lattice simulations in 3+1 dimensions to study the interplay between the resonant production of particles during preheating and the subsequent decay of these into a set of secondary species. We choose to work in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-01 Joël Repond , Javier Rubio

We investigate preheating of an inflaton field $\phi$ coupled nonminimally to a spacetime curvature. In the case of a self-coupling inflaton potential $V(\phi)=\lambda \phi^4/4$, the dynamics of preheating changes by the effect of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Tsujikawa , K. Maeda , T. Torii

Interactions between the inflaton and any additional fields can lead to isolated bursts of particle production during inflation (for example from parametric resonance or a phase transition). Inflationary particle production leaves localized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-23 Neil Barnaby

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