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TY - JOUR
T1 - Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology
T2 - Theory and Applications
AU - Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
AU - Brandenberger, Robert
AU - Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan
AU - Mazumdar, Anupam
N1 - Draft of commissioned review article for Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science, comments welcome! A few references added in this version
PY - 2010/1/15
Y1 - 2010/1/15
N2 - Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Matter particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We give a review of the reheating process, focusing on an in-depth discussion of the preheating stage which is characterized by exponential particle production due to a parametric resonance or tachyonic instability. We give a brief overview of the thermalization process after preheating and end with a survey of some applications to supersymmetric theories and to other issues in cosmology such as baryogenesis, dark matter and metric preheating.
AB - Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Matter particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We give a review of the reheating process, focusing on an in-depth discussion of the preheating stage which is characterized by exponential particle production due to a parametric resonance or tachyonic instability. We give a brief overview of the thermalization process after preheating and end with a survey of some applications to supersymmetric theories and to other issues in cosmology such as baryogenesis, dark matter and metric preheating.
U2 - 10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104511
DO - 10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104511
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 27
EP - 51
JO - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
JF - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science
SN - 0163-8998
ER -