On the reheating stage after inflation

Details On the reheating stage after inflation On the reheating stage after inflation

2003-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0307241v1

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 123505

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, 2 figures. Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.123505

We point out that inflaton decay products acquire plasma masses during the reheating phase following inflation. The plasma masses may render inflaton decay kinematicaly forbidden, causing the temperature to remain frozen for a period at a plateau value. We show that the final reheating temperature may be uniquely determined by the inflaton mass, and may not depend on its coupling. Our findings have important implications for the thermal production of dangerous relics during reheating (e.g., gravitinos), for extracting bounds on particle physics models of inflation from Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy data, for the production of massive dark matter candidates during reheating, and for models of baryogenesis or leptogensis where massive particles are produced during reheating.

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