Preheating from target space curvature and unitarity violation: Analysis in field space:Analysis in field space

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2021
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  • High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
  • Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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  • We study particle production and unitarity violation caused by a curved target space right after inflation. We use the inflaton field value instead of cosmic time as the time variable, and derive a semiclassical formula for the spectrum of produced particles. We then derive a simple condition for unitarity violation during preheating, which we confirm by our semiclassical method and numerical solution. This condition depends not only on the target space curvature but also on the height of the inflaton potential at the end of inflation. This condition tells us, for instance, that unitarity is violated in running kinetic inflation and Higgs inflation, while unitarity is conserved in α -attractor inflation and Higgs-Palatini inflation.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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