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Higgs Inflation: Particle Factory
Tammi Chowdhury, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb +1
We study cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) in Higgs inflation, wherein the inflaton is a scalar field with quartic self-coupling and a nonminimal coupling t…
Gravitational Particle Production of Scalars: Analytic and Numerical Approaches Including Early Reheating
Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb, Keyer Thyme
Cosmological gravitational particle production (GPP) is a generic mechanism by which particles are produced during the inflationary epoch. In this work we consider the GPP of massi…
Cosmological Implications of Kalb-Ramond-Like-Particles
Christian Capanelli, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb +1
The Kalb-Ramond field is an antisymmetric, rank-two tensor field which most notably appears in the context of string theory, but has largely been unexplored in the context of cosmo…
Exotic massive hadrons and ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Ivone F. M. Albuquerque, Glennys R. Farrar, Edward W. Kolb
We investigate the proposal that primary cosmic rays of energy above the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff are exotic massive strongly interacting particles (uhecrons). We study the p…
Critical Behavior in the Electroweak Phase Transition
Marcelo Gleiser, Edward W. Kolb
We examine the behavior of the standard-model electroweak phase transition in the early Universe. We argue that close to the critical temperature it is possible to estimate the {\i…