Large density perturbations from reheating to standard model particles due to the dynamics of the Higgs boson during inflation

Litsa, Aliki; Freese, Katherine; Sfakianakis, Evangelos I.; Stengel, Patrick; Visinelli, Luca

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.123546

Title: Large density perturbations from reheating to standard model particles due to the dynamics of the Higgs boson during inflation

Journal Article · Thu Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.123546· OSTI ID:1837334

; Freese, Katherine; Sfakianakis, Evangelos I.; Stengel, Patrick;

Cosmic microwave background observations are used to constrain reheating to standard model (SM) particles after a period of inflation. As a light spectator field, the SM Higgs boson acquires large field values from its quantum fluctuations during inflation, gives masses to SM particles that vary from one Hubble patch to another, and thereby produces large density fluctuations. We consider both perturbative and resonant decay of the inflaton to SM particles. For the case of perturbative decay from coherent oscillations of the inflaton after high scale inflation, we find strong upper bounds on the reheat temperature for the inflaton decay into heavy SM particles. The strongest bounds arise in the case of reheating to top quarks where we find T_rch ≲ $$\mathscr{O}$$ (10¹²) GeV for an inflaton mass of 10¹³ GeV. For the case of resonant particle production (preheating) to (Higgsed) SM gauge bosons, we find temperature fluctuations larger than observed in the cosmic microwave background for a range of gauge coupling that includes those found in the SM and conclude that such preheating cannot be the main source of reheating the Universe after inflation.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States); Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Swedish Research Council (SRC); Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO); “la Caixa” Foundation; European Union’s Horizon 2020; Ministero dell’Istruzione, Universit` a e della Ricerca (MIUR)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0007859; SC0022021; H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019//860881-HIDDeN; 638-2013-8993; 847648; 754496; 2017X7X85K

OSTI ID:: 1837334

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1979980

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 104 Journal Issue: 12; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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