Gravitational production of matter and radiation during reheating
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Abstract: (arXiv)
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, , 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.Note:
- 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
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