Fermion production from preheating-amplified metric perturbations

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00608-3zbMATH Open1006.83017arXivhep-ph/0109176OpenAlexW3099285040MaRDI QIDQ5952633FDOQ5952633

Authors: B. A. Bassett, Marco Peloso, Lorenzo Sorbo, Shinji Tsujikawa 

Publication date: 15 January 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study gravitational creation of light fermions in the presence of classical scalar metric perturbations about a flat Friedmann-Lemaitre- Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background. These perturbations can be large during preheating, breaking the conformal flatness of the background spacetime. We compute numerically the total number of particles generated by the modes of the metric perturbations which have grown sufficiently to become classical. In the absence of inhomogeneities massless fermions are not gravitationally produced, and then this effect may be relevant for abundance estimates of light gravitational relics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0109176

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zbMATH Keywords

backgroun spacetime conformal flatness breakingFriedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker backgroundgravitational creation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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• Large metric perturbations from rescattering
• Recrudescence of massive fermion production by oscillons

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