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Title: Reheating in two-sector cosmology

Abstract

We analyze reheating scenarios where a hidden sector is populated during reheating along with the sector containing the Standard Model. We numerically solve the Boltzmann equations describing perturbative reheating of the two sectors, including the full dependence on quantum statistics, and study how quantum statistical effects during reheating as well as the non-equilibrium inflaton-mediated energy transfer between the two sectors affects the temperature evolution of the two radiation baths. We obtain new power laws describing the temperature evolution of fermions and bosons when quantum statistics are important during reheating. We show that inflaton-mediated scattering is generically most important at radiation temperatures T ~ Mϕ/4, and build on this observation to obtain analytic estimates for the temperature asymmetry produced by asymmetric reheating. We find that for reheating temperatures Trh ≪ Mϕ/4, classical perturbative reheating provides an excellent approximation to the final temperature asymmetry, while for Trh ≫ Mϕ/4, inflaton-mediated scattering dominates the population of the colder sector and thus the final temperature asymmetry. We additionally present new techniques to calculate energy transfer rates between two relativistic species at different temperatures.

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  1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
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Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1612758
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0017840
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2019; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Physics; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Thermal Field Theory

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Adshead, Peter, Ralegankar, Pranjal, and Shelton, Jessie. Reheating in two-sector cosmology. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep08(2019)151.
Adshead, Peter, Ralegankar, Pranjal, & Shelton, Jessie. Reheating in two-sector cosmology. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2019)151
Adshead, Peter, Ralegankar, Pranjal, and Shelton, Jessie. Tue . "Reheating in two-sector cosmology". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08(2019)151. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1612758.
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title = {Reheating in two-sector cosmology},
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abstractNote = {We analyze reheating scenarios where a hidden sector is populated during reheating along with the sector containing the Standard Model. We numerically solve the Boltzmann equations describing perturbative reheating of the two sectors, including the full dependence on quantum statistics, and study how quantum statistical effects during reheating as well as the non-equilibrium inflaton-mediated energy transfer between the two sectors affects the temperature evolution of the two radiation baths. We obtain new power laws describing the temperature evolution of fermions and bosons when quantum statistics are important during reheating. We show that inflaton-mediated scattering is generically most important at radiation temperatures T ~ Mϕ/4, and build on this observation to obtain analytic estimates for the temperature asymmetry produced by asymmetric reheating. We find that for reheating temperatures Trh ≪ Mϕ/4, classical perturbative reheating provides an excellent approximation to the final temperature asymmetry, while for Trh ≫ Mϕ/4, inflaton-mediated scattering dominates the population of the colder sector and thus the final temperature asymmetry. We additionally present new techniques to calculate energy transfer rates between two relativistic species at different temperatures.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep08(2019)151},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 8,
volume = 2019,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}

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