Reheating as a surface effect

Enqvist, Kari and Kasuya, Shinta and Mazumdar, Anupam (2002) Reheating as a surface effect. Physical review letters, 89 (9): 091301. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

We describe a new mechanism for reheating the Universe through evaporation of a surface charge of a fragmented inflaton condensate. We show that for a range of Yukawa coupling of the inflaton to the matter sector evaporation gives rise to a much smaller reheat temperature compared to the standard perturbative decay. As a consequence, reheating through a surface effect could solve the gravitino and moduli over production problem in inflationary models without fine tuning the Yukawa sector.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Physical review letters
Additional Information:
© 2002 The American Physical Society 4 pages
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100
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?? physics and astronomy(all) ??
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63496
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Deposited On:
03 May 2013 09:21
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Yes
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