Reheating an Inflationary Universe
Feb, 1982
15 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 48 (1982) 1437
Report number:
- UPR-0189T,
- EFI-82-09-CHICAGO
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Abstract: (APS)
A numerical analysis of the evolution of the Higgs expectation value and the temperature of the universe during the symmetry-breaking phase transition in an SU(5) theory with radiatively induced symmetry breaking is presented. It is shown that there is sufficient inflation (exponential expansion) to explain the cosmological homogeneity, isotropy, flatness, and monopole puzzles, and also that the universe reheats to a temperature O(1014 GeV) so that the usual scheme for baryogenesis can proceed.- astrophysics
- grand unified theory: SU(5)
- spontaneous symmetry breaking
- field theory: finite temperature
- model: inflation
- field theory: critical phenomena
- model: Higgs
- baryon: asymmetry
- numerical calculations
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