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We study production of light particles due to oscillation of the Hubble parameter or the scale factor. Any coherently oscillating scalar field, irrespective of its energy fraction in the universe, imprints such an oscillating feature on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

Particle creation during inflation is considered. It could be important for species whose interaction is of gravitational strength or weaker. A complete but economical formalism is given for spin-zero and spin-half particles, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 David H. Lyth , David Roberts

We study particle production in infrared-modified gravitational theories in the contemporary universe. It is shown that in astronomical systems with rising mass density, the curvature scalar may oscillate with very high frequency. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 E. V. Arbuzova , A. D. Dolgov , L. Reverberi

Previous numerical investigations of gravitational particle production during the coherent oscillation period of inflation displayed unexplained fluctuations in the spectral density of the produced particles. We argue that these features…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Edward Basso , Daniel J. H. Chung , Edward W. Kolb , Andrew J. Long

Systems that exhibit pattern formation are typically driven and dissipative. In the early universe, parametric resonance can drive explosive particle production called preheating. The fields that are populated then decay quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 A. Sornborger , M. Parry

Parametric resonance can produce particles from oscillating scalar field, where an exponential growth of the particle number density can be developed. While it has been noticed that stimulated decay in Boltzmann equations exhibits similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Shao-Ping Li

The classical Friedman equations of time-varying Hubble function $H$, dark-energy and matter densities couple to quantised field equations for massive modes $M\gg H$. Numerically solving these equations, we show the particle-antiparticle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 She-Sheng Xue

In inflationary cosmology, the particles constituting the Universe are created after inflation in the process of reheating due to their interaction with the oscillating inflaton field. In the bosonic sector, the leading channel of particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Patrick B. Greene , Lev Kofman

In massless scalar field cosmology, imposing the universe's physical volume as fundamentally discrete resolves the big bang singularity via a big bounce. We use quantum field theory on curved background to numerically track the number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Mustafa Saeed , Irfan Javed , Aiman Nauman

Particle production through ultra-strong electric fields is a well-studied research field. Nevertheless, despite repeated attempts to relate the production rate within the field to the formation time of a particle, the latter is still…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Matthias Diez , Reinhard Alkofer , Christian Kohlfürst

We analyze the limits on resonant particle production during inflation based upon the power spectrum of fluctuations in matter and the cosmic microwave background. We show that such a model is consistent with features observed in the matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. J. Mathews , D. J. H. Chung , K. Ichiki , T. Kajino , M. Orito

Field amplification and particle production due to parametric resonance are highly nontrivial predictions of quantum fields that couple to an oscillating source during inflation and reheating. Understanding this two effects is crucial for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Anzhong Wang

The generation of large-scale magnetic fields is studied in inflationary cosmology. We consider the violation of the conformal invariance of the Maxwell field by dilatonic as well as non-minimal gravitational couplings. We derive a general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kazuharu Bamba , Misao Sasaki

The particle production process is reviewed, through which cosmic inflation can produce a scale invariant superhorizon spectrum of perturbations of suitable fields starting from their quantum fluctuations. Afterwards, in the context of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Particle production by expanding in the future light cone scalar quantum field is studied by assuming that the initial state is associated with the quasiequilibrium statistical operator corresponding to fluid dynamics. We calculate particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 S. V. Akkelin

We revisit the study of the phenomenology associated to a burst of particle production of a field whose mass is controlled by the inflaton field and vanishes at one given instance during inflation. This generates a bump in the correlators…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Lauren Pearce , Marco Peloso , Lorenzo Sorbo

We study the possibility that large scale cosmological perturbations have been generated during the domination and decay of a massive particle species whose mass depends on the expectation value of a light scalar field. We discuss the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Filippo Vernizzi

The recently proposed states of low energy provide a well-motivated class of reference states for the quantized linear scalar field on cosmological Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. The low energy property of a state is localized close…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-07 Andreas Degner , Rainer Verch

A theory of gravitational production of light scalar particles during and after inflation is investigated. We show that in the most interesting cases where long-wavelength fluctuations of light scalar fields can be generated during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gary Felder , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde

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