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Lattice study of classical inflaton decay
Tomislav Prokopec, Thomas G. Roos
We study numerically the decay of the inflaton by solving the full non-linear equations of motion on the lattice. We confirm that parametric resonance is effective in transferring…
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…
The Impossibility of Baryogenesis at a Second Order Electroweak Phase Transition
Tomislav Prokopec, Robert Brandenberger, Anne-Christine Davis
We investigate whether baryogenesis is possible at a second order electroweak phase transition. We find that under rather general conditions, the departure from thermal equilibrium…