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TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of spin 3/2 particles from vacuum fluctuations
AU - L. Maroto, Antonio
AU - Mazumdar, Anupam
N1 - © 2000 The American Physical Society 4 pages, RevTeX, 1 figure. New comments and references added. Final version to appear in Phys.Rev.Lett
PY - 2000/2/21
Y1 - 2000/2/21
N2 - We study the production of spin 3/2 particles in homogeneous scalar and gravitational backgrounds from the mode-mixing Bogolyubov method. Considering only helicity $\pm 3/2$ states we can reduce the problem to a standard Dirac fermion calculation and apply the standard techniques in a straightforward way. As an example we consider a supergravity inflationary model and calculate the spectrum of gravitinos created during preheating at the end of inflation.
AB - We study the production of spin 3/2 particles in homogeneous scalar and gravitational backgrounds from the mode-mixing Bogolyubov method. Considering only helicity $\pm 3/2$ states we can reduce the problem to a standard Dirac fermion calculation and apply the standard techniques in a straightforward way. As an example we consider a supergravity inflationary model and calculate the spectrum of gravitinos created during preheating at the end of inflation.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1655
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1655
M3 - Journal article
VL - 84
SP - 1655
EP - 1658
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 8
ER -