Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-09-22
Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 083513
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
12 Pages LaTeX. Catalysed thermalization discussion corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.083513
We consider the conditions for the decay products of perturbative inflaton decay to thermalize. The importance of considering the full spectrum of inflaton decay products in the thermalization process is emphasized. It is shown that the delay between the end of inflaton decay and thermalization allows the thermal gravitino upper bound on the reheating temperature to be raised from 10^{8} GeV to as much as 10^{12} GeV in realistic inflation models. Requiring that thermalization occurs before nucleosynthesis imposes an upper bound on the inflaton mass as a function of the reheating temperature, m_{S} < 10^{10} (T_{R}/1 GeV)^{7/9} GeV. It is also shown that even in realistic inflation models with relatively large reheating temperatures, it is non-trivial to have thermalization before the electroweak phase transition temperature. Therefore the thermal history of the Universe is very sensitive to details of the inflation model.
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