# Production of spin 3/2 particles from vacuum fluctuations

L. Maroto, Antonio and Mazumdar, Anupam (2000) Production of spin 3/2 particles from vacuum fluctuations. Physical review letters, 84 (8). pp. 1655-1658. ISSN 1079-7114

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## Abstract

We study the production of spin 3/2 particles in homogeneous scalar and gravitational backgrounds from the mode-mixing Bogolyubov method. Considering only helicity $\pm 3/2$ states we can reduce the problem to a standard Dirac fermion calculation and apply the standard techniques in a straightforward way. As an example we consider a supergravity inflationary model and calculate the spectrum of gravitinos created during preheating at the end of inflation.

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Physical review letters
© 2000 The American Physical Society 4 pages, RevTeX, 1 figure. New comments and references added. Final version to appear in Phys.Rev.Lett
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09 May 2013 09:08
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