Preheating with nonminimal kinetic terms

HL Child, JT Giblin Jr, RH Ribeiro, D Seery - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
HL Child, JT Giblin Jr, RH Ribeiro, D Seery
Physical Review Letters, 2013APS
We present the first (3+ 1)-dimensional numerical simulations of scalar fields with
nonminimal kinetic terms. As an example, we examine the existence and stability of
preheating in the presence of a Dirac-Born-Infeld inflaton coupled to a canonical matter field.
The simulations represent the full nonlinear theory in the presence of an expanding
universe. We show that parametric resonance in the matter field along with self-resonance in
the inflaton repopulate the universe with matter particles as efficiently as<? format?> in …
We present the first ()-dimensional numerical simulations of scalar fields with nonminimal kinetic terms. As an example, we examine the existence and stability of preheating in the presence of a Dirac-Born-Infeld inflaton coupled to a canonical matter field. The simulations represent the full nonlinear theory in the presence of an expanding universe. We show that parametric resonance in the matter field along with self-resonance in the inflaton repopulate the universe with matter particles as efficiently as <?format ?>in traditional preheating.
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