Adiabatic out-of-equilibrium solutions to the Boltzmann equation in warm inflation

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)063MaRDI QIDQ1748756zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mar Bastero-Gil, Arjun Berera, Rudnei O. Ramos, João G. Rosa

Publication date 14 May 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09023

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We show that, in warm inflation, the nearly constant Hubble rate and temperature lead to an adiabatic evolution of the number density of particles interacting with the thermal bath, even if thermal equilibrium cannot be maintained. In this case, the number density is suppressed compared to the equilibrium value but the associated phase-space distribution retains approximately an equilibrium form, with a smaller amplitude and a slightly smaller effective temperature. As an application, we explicitly construct a baryogenesis mechanism during warm inflation based on the out-of-equilibrium decay of particles in such an adiabatically evolving state. We show that this generically leads to small baryon isocurvature perturbations, within the bounds set by the Planck satellite. These are correlated with the main adiabatic curvature perturbations but exhibit a distinct spectral index, which may constitute a smoking gun for baryogenesis during warm inflation. Finally, we discuss the prospects for other applications of adiabatically evolving out-of-equilibrium states.

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