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Reheating Temperature and Inflaton Mass Bounds from Thermalization After Inflation
John McDonald
We consider the conditions for the decay products of perturbative inflaton decay to thermalize. The importance of considering the full spectrum of inflaton decay products in the th…
Symmetry Non-Restoration via Order 10^{-10} B and L Asymmetries
John McDonald
It has been observed that a large lepton asymmetry, n_{L}/s \approx 0.1, can prevent the Higgs expectation value from going to zero at high temperature, resulting in the non-restor…
The Dynamics of Affleck-Dine Condensate Collapse
Kari Enqvist, John McDonald
In the MSSM, cosmological scalar field condensates formed along flat directions of the scalar potential (Affleck-Dine condensates) are typically unstable with respect to formation…
Positive Order H^2 Mass Corrections and Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis
John McDonald
It is usually assumed that the order H^2 corrections to the SUSY-breaking mass squared terms in the early Universe must be negative in order to allow the Affleck-Dine mechanism to…
B-ball Baryogenesis and D-term Inflation
John McDonald
The MSSM has flat directions in its scalar potential, along which it is natural for Bose condensates of squarks to form in the early Universe. A baryon asymmetry can be induced in…