Reheating via a generalized nonminimal coupling of curvature to matter

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

bertolami, o (Author) FCUP; frazao, p (Author) Other; paramos, j (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Vol. 83

ISSN: 1550-7998

Publisher: American Physical Society

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-V74

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.83.044010

Abstract (EN): In this work, one shows that a generalized nonminimal coupling between geometry and matter is compatible with Starobinsky inflation and leads to a successful process of preheating, a reheating scenario based on the production of massive particles via parametric resonance. The model naturally extends the usual preheating mechanism, which resorts to an ad hoc scalar curvature-dependent mass term for a scalar field chi, and also encompasses a previously studied preheating channel based upon a nonstandard kinetic term.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12