Stochastic particle production in a de Sitter background

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2019/05/012zbMATH Open1481.83105arXiv1902.09598OpenAlexW3100895900WikidataQ64297362 ScholiaQ64297362MaRDI QIDQ5862935FDOQ5862935

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Publication date: 10 March 2022

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

Abstract: We explore non-adiabatic particle production in a de Sitter universe for a scalar spectator field, by allowing the effective mass $m^2(t)$ of this field and the cosmic time interval between non-adiabatic events to vary stochastically. Two main scenarios are considered depending on the (non-stochastic) mass $M$ of the spectator field: the conformal case with $M^2=2H^2$, and the case of a massless field. We make use of the transfer matrix formalism to parametrize the evolution of the system in terms of the "occupation number", and two phases associated with the transfer matrix; these are used to construct the evolution of the spectator field. Assuming short-time interactions approximated by Dirac-delta functions, we numerically track the change of these parameters and the field in all regimes: sub- and super-horizon with weak and strong scattering. In all cases a log-normally distributed field amplitude is observed, and the logarithm of the field amplitude approximately satisfies the properties of a Wiener process outside the horizon. We derive a Fokker-Planck equation for the evolution of the transfer matrix parameters, which allows us to calculate analytically non-trivial distributions and moments in the weak-scattering limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09598

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationphysics of the early universeparticle physics-cosmology connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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