Resonant backreaction in axion inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/009zbMATH Open1493.83027arXiv2002.02952OpenAlexW3082266486MaRDI QIDQ5070929FDOQ5070929

Authors: Veronica Guidetti, Yvette Welling, Alexander Westphal, V. Domcke 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

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

Abstract: Axion inflation entails a coupling of the inflaton field to gauge fields through the Chern-Simons term. This results in a strong gauge field production during inflation, which backreacts on the inflaton equation of motion. Here we show that this strongly non-linear system generically experiences a resonant enhancement of the gauge field production, resulting in oscillatory features in the inflaton velocity as well as in the gauge field spectrum. The gauge fields source a strongly enhanced scalar power spectrum at small scales, exceeding previous estimates. For appropriate parameter choices, the collapse of these over-dense regions can lead to a large population of (light) primordial black holes with remarkable phenomenological consequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02952

zbMATH Keywords

inflationaxions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Black holes (83C57) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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