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Thermal inflation can solve serious cosmological problems such as overproduction of gravitinos and moduli. However, it also dilutes the preexisting baryon asymmetry. We investigate a possibility that Affleck-Dine mechanism works after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Nakayama

We study production of free and feebly interacting scalars during inflation using the Bogolyubov coefficient and Starobinsky stochastic approaches. While the two methods agree in the limit of infinitely long inflation, the Starobinsky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Duarte Feiteira , Oleg Lebedev

We point out that for a class of `new inflation' models in supergravity the required initial value of the inflaton field is dynamically set if there is another inflation (`pre-inflation') before the `new inflation'. We study the dynamics of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 K. -I. Izawa , M. Kawasaki , T. Yanagida

We provide a detailed study of reheating in the kination regime where particle content is created by gravitational production of massive scalars mutually interacting with a massless scalar field. The produced particles subsequently decay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-27 Juho Lankinen , Oskari Kerppo , Iiro Vilja

Following our previous work, we continue to explore gravitational dark matter production during the minimal preheating caused by inflaton self-resonance. In this situation there is only one dimensionless index parameter $n$ characterizing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-12 Ruopeng Zhang , Sibo Zheng

We study production of gravitino and Polonyi particles in the minimal Starobinsky-Polonyi $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity with inflaton belonging to a massive vector supermultiplet. Our model has only one free parameter given by the scale of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-09 Andrea Addazi , Sergei V. Ketov , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

We discuss the emergence of an inflationary phase in supergravity with the super-Higgs effect due to dynamical spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry, in which the role of the inflaton is played by the gravitino condensate. Realistic models…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 John Ellis , Nick E. Mavromatos

Flat directions in supersymmetric models can get large vacuum expectation values in the early Universe which leads to a large mass for gauge bosons and gauginos. We point out that this can then result in enhanced gravitino production…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Raghavan Rangarajan , Anjishnu Sarkar

In this talk, we studied the implication of the constraint on the reheating temperature coming from the gravitino problem on models of leptogenesis. We point out that in supersymmetric extensions of the standard model, all existing models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Delepine

The super-inflationary phase is predicted by the Loop Quantum Cosmology. In this paper we study the creation of gravitational waves during this phase. We consider the inverse volume corrections to the equation for the tensor modes and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-10-16 Jakub Mielczarek , Marek Szydlowski

During inflation, scalar fields, including the Higgs boson, may acquire a nonzero vacuum expectation value, which must later relax to the equilibrium value during reheating. In the presence of the time-dependent condensate, the vacuum state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-06 Lauren Pearce , Louis Yang , Alexander Kusenko , Marco Peloso

We discuss Preheating after an inflationary stage driven by the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field non-minimally coupled to gravity. We find that Preheating is driven by a complex process in which perturbative and non-perturbative effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Daniel G. Figueroa

It is assumed that during inflation, all energy was contained in a slow-rolling inflaton field $\phi$. The particles constituting the Universe are created due to interactions with the field $\phi$ coherently oscillating after inflation. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

A variety of mechanisms in the early Universe lead to the generation of gravitational waves (GWs). We introduce here a novel source of GWs generated by vacuum fluctuations after inflation. Given that gravitons are minimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Alina Mierna , Gabriele Perna , Sabino Matarrese , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

We investigate gravitational reheating in the Starobinsky model in the Jordan frame, where inflation is driven by an $R^2$ modification of gravity with no explicit inflaton field. In this description, reheating proceeds exclusively through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Gláuber C. Dorsch , Luiz Carlos Miranda , Nelson Yokomizo

We show by studying the Abelian Higgs model with numerical lattice simulations that non-thermal phase transitions arising out of preheating after inflation are possible in gauge-Higgs models under rather general circumstances. This may lead…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Rajantie , E. J. Copeland

Recently, a combined model of the primordial inflation and the present cosmic acceleration has been proposed in the context of f(R) gravity. This model is composed of the late-time acceleration term and an R2 term, which enables the model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Hayato Motohashi

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 propose a non-oscillatory no-scale supergravity model of inflation (NO-NO inflation) in which the inflaton does not oscillate at the end of the inflationary era. Instead, the Universe is then dominated by the inflaton kinetic energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 John Ellis , Dimitri V. Nanopoulos , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

In this paper we propose a mechanism of natural preheating of our universe by introducing an inflaton field dependent mass term for the gravitational wave for a specific class of massive gravity theory. For any single field inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 Debaprasad Maity