Tachyonic Preheating in Palatini $R^2$ Inflation

Abstract

We study preheating in the Palatini formalism with a quadratic inflaton potential and an added $\alpha R^2$ term. In such models, the oscillating inflaton field repeatedly returns to the plateau of the Einstein frame potential, on which the tachyonic instability fragments the inflaton condensate within less than an e-fold. We find that tachyonic preheating takes place when $\alpha \gtrsim 10^{13}$ and that the energy density of the fragmented field grows with the rate $\Gamma /H\approx 0.011\times {\alpha }^{0.31}$. The model extends the family of plateau models with similar preheating behaviour. Although it contains non-canonical quartic kinetic terms in the Einstein frame, we show that, in the first approximation, these can be neglected during both preheating and inflation.

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