Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Publication Title
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Here we consider the possibility of preheating the Universe via the parametric amplification of a massless, U(1) abelian gauge field. We assume that the gauge field is coupled to the inflaton via a conformal factor with one free parameter. We present the results of high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of this model and show this mechanism efficiently preheats the Universe to a radiation-dominated final state.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.063530
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Deskins, J. Tate; Giblin, John T. Jr.; and Caldwell, Robert R., "Gauge Field Preheating at the End of Inflation" (2013). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2714.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2714