Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating

In the transition between inflation and reheating, the curvature scalar typically undergoes oscillations which have significant impact on the density of gravitationally produced particles. The commonly used adiabatic vacuum prescription for the extraction of produced particle spectra becomes a non-r...

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Autores: Cembranos, Jose A.R., Garay, Luis J., Parra-López, Álvaro, Sánchez Velázquez, Jose M.
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Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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Palabra clave:Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
Dark matter theory
Inflation
Quantum fields in curved spacetimes
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spelling Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheatingCembranos, Jose A.R.Garay, Luis J.Parra-López, ÁlvaroSánchez Velázquez, Jose M.Cosmology of Theories beyond the SMDark matter theoryInflationQuantum fields in curved spacetimesIn the transition between inflation and reheating, the curvature scalar typically undergoes oscillations which have significant impact on the density of gravitationally produced particles. The commonly used adiabatic vacuum prescription for the extraction of produced particle spectra becomes a non-reliable definition of vacuum in the regimes for which this oscillatory behavior is important. In this work, we study particle production for a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity, taking into account the complete dynamics of spacetime during inflation and reheating. We derive an approximation for the solution to the mode equation during the slow-roll of the inflaton and analyze the importance of Ricci scalar oscillations in the resulting spectra. Additionally, we propose a prescription for the vacuum that allows to safely extrapolate the result to the present, given that the test field interacts only gravitationally. Lastly, we calculate the abundance of dark matter this mechanism yields and compare it to observations.This work was partially supported by the MICINN (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain) projects PID2019-107394GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (AEI/FEDER, UE), PID2020- 118159GBC44, and PID2022-139841NB-I00, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Actions CA21106 and CA21136. Additionally, Á.P.-L. is supported by the MIU (Ministerio de Universidades, Spain) fellowship FPU20/05603. JARC acknowledges support by Institut Pascal at Université Paris-Saclay during the Paris-Saclay Astroparticle Symposium 2022, with the support of the P2IO Laboratory of Excellence (program “Investissements d’avenir” ANR-11-IDEX-0003-01 Paris-Saclay and ANR-10-LABX-0038), the P2I axis of the Graduate School of Physics of Université Paris-Saclay, as well as IJCLab, CEA, APPEC, IAS, OSUPS, and the IN2P3 master projet UCMN. Finally, JMSV acknowledges the support of the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación through the grant “IFT Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa CEX2020-001007-S".Peer reviewedConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202420242023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Preprintinfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/350329https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85169537711reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)InglésJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physicshttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/08/060Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3503292026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
title Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
spellingShingle Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
Cembranos, Jose A.R.
Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
Dark matter theory
Inflation
Quantum fields in curved spacetimes
title_short Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
title_full Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
title_fullStr Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
title_full_unstemmed Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
title_sort Late vacuum choice and slow roll approximation in gravitational particle production during reheating
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cembranos, Jose A.R.
Garay, Luis J.
Parra-López, Álvaro
Sánchez Velázquez, Jose M.
author Cembranos, Jose A.R.
author_facet Cembranos, Jose A.R.
Garay, Luis J.
Parra-López, Álvaro
Sánchez Velázquez, Jose M.
author_role author
author2 Garay, Luis J.
Parra-López, Álvaro
Sánchez Velázquez, Jose M.
author2_role author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
Dark matter theory
Inflation
Quantum fields in curved spacetimes
topic Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
Dark matter theory
Inflation
Quantum fields in curved spacetimes
description In the transition between inflation and reheating, the curvature scalar typically undergoes oscillations which have significant impact on the density of gravitationally produced particles. The commonly used adiabatic vacuum prescription for the extraction of produced particle spectra becomes a non-reliable definition of vacuum in the regimes for which this oscillatory behavior is important. In this work, we study particle production for a scalar field non-minimally coupled to gravity, taking into account the complete dynamics of spacetime during inflation and reheating. We derive an approximation for the solution to the mode equation during the slow-roll of the inflaton and analyze the importance of Ricci scalar oscillations in the resulting spectra. Additionally, we propose a prescription for the vacuum that allows to safely extrapolate the result to the present, given that the test field interacts only gravitationally. Lastly, we calculate the abundance of dark matter this mechanism yields and compare it to observations.
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