Warming up cold inflation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/11/011MaRDI QIDQ5062270zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William Derocco, Peter W. Graham, Saarik Kalia

Publication date 15 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07517

zbMATH Keywords

axionsinflationparticle physics-cosmology connectionphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The axion is a well-motivated candidate for the inflaton, as the radiative corrections that spoil many single-field models are avoided by virtue of its shift symmetry. However, axions generically couple to gauge sectors. As the axion slow-rolls during inflation, this coupling can cause the production of a non-diluting thermal bath, a situation known as "warm inflation." This thermal bath can dramatically alter inflationary dynamics and observable predictions. In this paper, we demonstrate that a thermal bath can form for a wide variety of initial conditions. Furthermore, we find that axion inflation becomes warm over a large range of couplings, and explicitly map the parameter space for two axion inflation potentials. We show that in large regions of parameter space, axion inflation models once assumed to be safely "cold" are in fact warm, and must be reevaluated in this context.

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