Tachyonic preheating in plateau inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/12/035MaRDI QIDQ5064666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Eemeli Tomberg, Hardi Veermäe

Publication date 16 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10767

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological perturbation theoryinflationquantum field theory on curved space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Point estimation (62F10) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Coherent states (81R30) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Matrix models and tensor models for quantum field theory (81T32) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Plateau inflation is an experimentally consistent framework in which the scale of inflation can be kept relatively low. Close to the edge of the plateau, scalar perturbations are subject to a strong tachyonic instability. Tachyonic preheating is realized when, after inflation, the oscillating inflaton repeatedly re-enters the plateau. We develop the analytic theory of this process and expand the linear approach by including backreaction between the coherent background and growing perturbations. For a family of plateau models, the analytic predictions are confronted with numerical estimates. Our analysis shows that the inflaton fragments in a fraction of an $e$-fold in all examples supporting tachyonic preheating, generalizing the results of previous similar studies. In these scenarios, the scalar-to-tensor ratio is tiny, $r<10^{-7}$.

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