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Thermal Inflation with a Thermal Waterfall Scalar Field Coupled to a Light Spectator Scalar Field
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, David H. Lyth, Arron Rumsey
A new model of thermal inflation is introduced, in which the mass of the thermal waterfall field is dependent on a light spectator scalar field. Using the formalism, the "end…
Super-horizon perturbations and preheating
Andrew R. Liddle, David H. Lyth, Karim A. Malik +1
It has recently been claimed by Bassett et al that preheating after inflation may affect the amplitude of curvature perturbations on large scales, undermining the usual inflationar…
Some aspects of thermal inflation: the finite temperature potential and topological defects
Tiago Barreiro, E. J. Copeland, David H. Lyth +1
Currently favoured extensions of the Standard Model typically contain `flaton fields' defined as fields with large vacuum expectation values (vevs) and almost flat potentials. If a…