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We consider the complex inflaton field with a CP asymmetric term for its potential. This CP asymmetric term produces the global charge of the inflaton after inflation. With the assignment of the baryon number to the inflaton, the baryon…

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We study the reheating and non-thermal leptogenesis in the case of a vector inflaton. We concentrate on particle production during the phase of oscillating background, especially gravitational production induced by the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-17 Simon Cléry , Pascal Anastasopoulos , Yann Mambrini

In this paper, we investigate the Axion-like Particle inflation by applying the multi-nature inflation model, where the end of inflation is achieved through the phase transition (PT). The events of PT should not be less than $200$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wei Cheng , Tao Qian , Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Rui-Yu Zhou

The inflationary reheating phase begins when accelerated expansion ends. As all Standard Model particles are coupled to gravity, gravitational interactions will lead to particle production. This includes the thermal bath, dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Gongjun Choi , Wenqi Ke , Keith A. Olive

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

The early Universe inflation is well known as a promising theory to explain the origin of large scale structure of the Universe, a causal theory for the origin of primordial density fluctuations which may explain the observed density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-he Meng

We consider the generation of the baryon asymmetry in models with right-handed neutrinos produced through gravitational scattering of the inflaton during reheating. The right-handed neutrinos later decay and generate a lepton asymmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-05 Raymond T. Co , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive

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

We study the evolution of Gravitational Waves (GWs) during and after inflation as well as the resulting observational consequences in a Lorentz-violating massive gravity theory with one scalar (inflaton) and two tensor degrees of freedom.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-23 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Chunshan Lin , Misao Sasaki , Shinji Tsujikawa

The emergence of time in the matter-gravity system is addressed within the context of the inflationary paradigm. A quantum minisuperspace-homogeneous minimally coupled inflaton system is studied with suitable initial conditions leading to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Tronconi , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

We calculate the reheating temperature in scenarios where heavy particles are gravitationally produced during a phase transition. We explore two distinct situations: the decay of these particles both during and after the kination phase.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Jaume de Haro

We discuss a mechanism for producing baryon density perturbations during inflationary stage and study the evolution of the baryon charge density distribution in the framework of the low temperature baryogenesis scenario. This mechanism may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. P. Kirilova , M. V. Chizhov

Axion inflation entails a coupling of the inflaton field to gauge fields through the Chern-Simons term. This results in a strong gauge field production during inflation, which backreacts on the inflaton equation of motion. Here we show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Valerie Domcke , Veronica Guidetti , Yvette Welling , Alexander Westphal

We explore the production of gravitational waves (GW) resulting from a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a non-minimally coupled `Dark Higgs Inflation' model. Utilizing a dark sector scalar field as the inflaton, we demonstrate how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Jörn Kersten , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park , Juhoon Son , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

One of the most important issues in an inflationary theory as standard or quintessential inflation is the mechanism to reheat the universe after the end of the inflationary period in order to match with the Hot Big Bang universe. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-03 Jaume Haro , Llibert Aresté Saló

We study the scalar and tensor perturbations generated by the fragmentation of the inflaton condensate into oscillons or transients after inflation, using nonlinear classical lattice simulations. Without including the backreaction of metric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Mustafa A. Amin

We investigate the impact of the post-inflationary thermal histories on the cosmic graviton spectrum caused by the inflationary variation of their refractive index. Depending on the frequency band, the spectral energy distribution can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-21 Massimo Giovannini

The excessive production of gravitinos in the early universe destroys the successful predictions of nucleosynthesis. The thermal generation of gravitinos after inflation leads to the bound on the reheating temperature, T_{RH}< 10^9 GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. F. Giudice , A. Riotto , I. Tkachev

The formation of regular patterns is a well-known phenomenon in condensed matter physics. Systems that exhibit pattern formation are typically driven and dissipative with pattern formation occurring in the weakly non-linear regime and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Sornborger , M. Parry

We study cosmological evolution after inflation in models with non-minimal derivative coupling to gravity. The background dynamics is solved and particle production associated with rapidly oscillating Hubble parameter is studied in detail.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-14 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama