Gravitational production of matter and radiation during reheating

Sep 25, 2023
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I present the production of matter and radiation during reheating after inflation, considering only gravitational interactions between the inflaton background and the other sectors. Processes considered are the following: i) the exchange of a graviton, hμνh_{\mu \nu}, involved in the scattering of the inflaton or particles in the newly created radiation bath; ii) scattering of the inflaton background and particles in the radiation bath including the effects of non-minimal couplings to curvature of the Higgs boson and the inflaton. Requiring the existence of heavy right-handed neutrinos (RHN), I show that a minimal scenario utilizing only these "gravitational portals" is able to generate simultaneously the observed relic density of Dark Matter (DM), the baryon asymmetry through leptogenesis, as well as a sufficiently hot thermal bath after inflation, for generic models of large field inflation.
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  • Contribution to the 34th Rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology (Blois 2023)
  • matter: production
  • inflaton: scattering
  • dark matter: relic density
  • baryon: asymmetry
  • neutrino: right-handed
  • graviton: exchange
  • gravitation: interaction
  • coupling: nonminimal
  • inflation: model
  • reheating