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Title: Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior

Abstract

This is the first of a three-part series of papers, in which we study the preheating phase for multifield models of inflation involving nonminimal couplings. We study the single-field attractor behavior that these models exhibit during inflation and quantify its strength and parameter dependence. We further demonstrate that the strong single-field attractor behavior persists after the end of inflation. Preheating in such models therefore generically avoids the “dephasing” that typically affects multifield models with minimally coupled fields, allowing efficient transfer of energy from the oscillating inflaton condensate(s) to coupled perturbations across large portions of parameter space. We develop a doubly covariant formalism for studying the preheating phase in such models and identify several features specific to multifield models with nonminimal couplings, including effects that arise from the nontrivial field-space manifold. In papers II and III, we apply this formalism to study how the amplification of adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations varies with parameters, highlighting several distinct regimes depending on the magnitude of the nonminimal couplings $${{\xi}}_{I}$$.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1505817
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1418191
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012567
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D.
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 97; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmology; inflation; particle astrophysics

Citation Formats

DeCross, Matthew P., Kaiser, David I., Prabhu, Anirudh, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, and Sfakianakis, Evangelos I. Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.97.023526.
DeCross, Matthew P., Kaiser, David I., Prabhu, Anirudh, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, & Sfakianakis, Evangelos I. Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.97.023526
DeCross, Matthew P., Kaiser, David I., Prabhu, Anirudh, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda, and Sfakianakis, Evangelos I. 2018. "Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.97.023526. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505817.
@article{osti_1505817,
title = {Preheating after multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings. I. Covariant formalism and attractor behavior},
author = {DeCross, Matthew P. and Kaiser, David I. and Prabhu, Anirudh and Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda and Sfakianakis, Evangelos I.},
abstractNote = {This is the first of a three-part series of papers, in which we study the preheating phase for multifield models of inflation involving nonminimal couplings. We study the single-field attractor behavior that these models exhibit during inflation and quantify its strength and parameter dependence. We further demonstrate that the strong single-field attractor behavior persists after the end of inflation. Preheating in such models therefore generically avoids the “dephasing” that typically affects multifield models with minimally coupled fields, allowing efficient transfer of energy from the oscillating inflaton condensate(s) to coupled perturbations across large portions of parameter space. We develop a doubly covariant formalism for studying the preheating phase in such models and identify several features specific to multifield models with nonminimal couplings, including effects that arise from the nontrivial field-space manifold. In papers II and III, we apply this formalism to study how the amplification of adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations varies with parameters, highlighting several distinct regimes depending on the magnitude of the nonminimal couplings ${{\xi}}_{I}$.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.97.023526},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1505817}, journal = {Physical Review. D.},
issn = {2470-0010},
number = 2,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Potential in the Einstein frame, V(ϕI), for a two-field model with ξχ/ξϕ = 0.8, λχ/λϕ = 1.25, and g/λϕ = 1, for ξϕ = 102 (left) and ξϕ = 10−2 (right). Field values are in units of Mpl.

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