Gravitational particle production in bouncing cosmologies

© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl . It is argued that the Universe reheating in bouncing cosmologies could be explained via gravitational particle production, as due to a sudden phase transition in the contracting regime. To this end, it is shown that, in the context of Loop Quantum C...

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Autores: Haro Cases, Jaume|||0000-0002-5705-2405, Elizalde, Emilio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/85188
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/85188
https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/10/028
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Quantum gravity
Quantum cosmology
alternatives to inflation
quantum field theory on curved space
Gravitació
Cosmologia
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl . It is argued that the Universe reheating in bouncing cosmologies could be explained via gravitational particle production, as due to a sudden phase transition in the contracting regime. To this end, it is shown that, in the context of Loop Quantum Cosmology, gravitational production of massive particles conformally coupled with gravity in a matter-ekpyrotic bouncing Universe, where the sudden phase transition occurs in the contracting regime, yields a reheating temperature which is in good agreement with cosmological observations.