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Title: Thermal Background Can Solve the Cosmological Moduli Problem

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)

It is shown that the coherent field oscillation of moduli fields with weak or TeV scale masses can dissipate its energy efficiently if they have a derivative coupling to standard bosonic fields in a thermal state. This mechanism provides a new solution to the cosmological moduli problem without creating too much entropy at late time.

OSTI ID:
20777205
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 96, Issue 17; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.171301; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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