On unitarity in singlet inflation with a non-minimal coupling to gravity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/08/009MaRDI QIDQ6175041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oleg Lebedev, Y. Mambrini, Jong-Hyun Yoon

Publication date 17 August 2023

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05682

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologydark matterearly universeinflationscalar field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We study inflationary models based on a non-minimal coupling of a singlet scalar to gravity, focussing on the preheating dynamics and the unitarity issues in this regime. If the scalar does not have significant couplings to other fields, particle production after inflation is far less efficient than that in Higgs inflation. As a result, unitarity violation at large non-minimal couplings requires a different treatment. We find that collective effects in inflaton scattering processes during preheating make an important impact on the unitarity constraint. Within effective field theory, the consequent upper bound on the non-minimal coupling is of order a few hundreds.

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