Gauge field production and Schwinger reheating in runaway axion inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/058MaRDI QIDQ5099274zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Soichiro Hashiba, Kohei Kamada, Hiromasa Nakatsuka

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10822

zbMATH Keywords

axionsinflationparticle physics-cosmology connectionprimordial magnetic fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Effective quantum field theories (81T12) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In a class of (pseudoscalar) inflation, inflationary phase is followed by a kination phase, where the Universe is dominated by the kinetic energy of the inflaton that runs away in a vanishing scalar potential. In this class of postinflationary evolution of the Universe, reheating of the Universe cannot be achieved by the inflaton particle decay, which requires its coherent oscillation in a quadratic potential. In this study, we explore the U(1) gauge field production through the Chern-Simons coupling between the pseudoscalar inflaton and the gauge field during the kination era and examine the subsequent pair-particle production induced by the amplified gauge field known as the Schwinger effect, which can lead to reheating of the Universe. We find that with a rough estimate of the Schwinger effect for the Standard Model hyper U(1) gauge field and subsequent thermalization of the pair-produced particles, a successful reheating of the Universe can be achieved by their eventual domination over the kinetic energy of the inflaton, with some reasonable parameter sets. This can be understood as a concrete realization of the "Schwinger reheating". Constraints from the later-time cosmology are also discussed.

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