Gravitational production of super-Hubble-mass particles: an analytic approach

Chung, Daniel J.  H.; Kolb, Edward W.; Long, Andrew J.

doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2019)189

Title: Gravitational production of super-Hubble-mass particles: an analytic approach

Journal Article · 23 January 2019 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2019)189 · OSTI ID:1593927

Chung, Daniel J. H. ^[1]; Kolb, Edward W. ^[2];

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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); University of Chicago
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Inst., and Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Through a mechanism similar to perturbative particle scattering, particles of mass m_χ larger than the Hubble expansion rate H_inf during inflation can be gravitationally produced at the end of inflation without the exponential suppression powers of exp(-m_χ/H_inf). Here we develop an analytic formalism for computing particle production for such massive particles. We apply our formalism to specific models that have been previously been studied only numerically, and we find that our analytical approximations reproduce those numerical estimates well.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009924; SC0017647; SC0007859

OSTI ID:: 1593927

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 2019; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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