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When does the inflaton decay?

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Cristian Armendariz-Picon *
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In order for the inflator' to decay into radiation at the end of inflation, it needs to couple to light matter fields. In this article we determine whether such couplings cause the inflator' to decay during inflation rather than after it. We calculate decay amplitudes during inflation, and determine to what extent such processes have an impact on the mean and variance of the inflaton, as well as on the expected energy density of its decay products. Although the exponential growth of the decay amplitudes with the number of e-folds appears to indicate the rapid decay of the inflator', cancellations among different amplitudes and probabilities result in corrections to the different expectation values that only grow substantially when the number of e-folds is much larger than the inverse squared inflaton mass in units of the Hubble scale. Otherwise, for typical parameter choices, it is safe to assume that the inflator' does not decay during inflation.
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inflation
physics of the early universe
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 封面图
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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saint lawrence university
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