Minimal warm inflation with complete medium response

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/031zbMATH Open1485.83156arXiv2102.09913OpenAlexW3171147150MaRDI QIDQ5028754FDOQ5028754

Authors: S. Procacci, M. Laine 

Publication date: 10 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If a homogeneous field evolves within a medium, with the latter gradually picking up a temperature, then the friction felt by the field depends on how its evolution rate compares with medium time scales. We suggest a framework which permits to incorporate the contributions from all medium time scales. As an example, we illustrate how warm axion inflation can be described by inputting the retarded pseudoscalar correlator of a thermal Yang-Mills plasma. Adopting a semi-realistic model for the latter, and starting the evolution at almost vanishing temperature, we show how the system heats up and then enters the "weak" or "strong" regime of warm inflation. Previous approximate treatments are scrutinized.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09913

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationaxionsparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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