On preheating in Higgs inflation

Hamada, Yuta; Kawana, Kiyoharu; Scherlis, Adam

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/062

On preheating in Higgs inflation

Journal Article · 01 March 2021 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/062· OSTI ID:1851588

Hamada, Yuta ^[1]; Kawana, Kiyoharu; Scherlis, Adam

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Abstract

Recently, the problem of unitarity violation during the preheating stage of Higgs inflation with a large non-minimal coupling has been much discussed in the literature. We point out that this problem can be translated into a strong coupling problem for the dimensionless effective coupling, and that the existence of these problems is highly dependent on the choice of higher-dimensional operators because they can significantly change the background dynamics and the canonical normalization of the fluctuations around it. Correspondingly, the typical energy of particles produced during the first stage of preheating can remain comparable to or below the cutoff scale of the theory. As an example, we numerically calculate the particle production in the presence of a specific four-derivative operator of the Higgs field, and confirm the statement above. Our argument also applies to multi-field inflation with non-minimal couplings.

Research Organization:: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0012012;

OSTI ID:: 1851588

Journal Information:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 03 Vol. 2021; ISSN 1475-7516

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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