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Ricci Reheating

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We present a model for viable gravitational reheating involving a scalar field directly coupled to the Ricci curvature scalar. Crucial to the model is a period of kination after inflation, which causes the Ricci scalar to change sign thus inducing a tachyonic effective mass $m^{2} \propto -H^2$ for the scalar field. The resulting tachyonic growth of the scalar field provides the energy for reheating, allowing for temperatures high enough for thermal leptogenesis. Additionally, the required period of kination necessarily leads to a blue-tilted primordial gravitational wave spectrum with the potential to be detected by future experiments. We find that for reheating temperatures $T_{\rm RH} \lesssim 1$ GeV, the possibility exists for the Higgs field to play the role of the scalar field.

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Dark Matter Freeze-in from a $Z^\prime$ Reheaton

hep-ph · 2025-11-04 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Dark matter freezes in from non-thermal Z' decays before reheating ends in an inflationary model with a secluded U(1)_D gauge sector, Z' reheaton, and lattice treatment of non-perturbative effects, opening viable parameter space with GW probes.

Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Modulated Reheating

astro-ph.CO · 2025-10-07 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

A spectator scalar in modulated reheating with large Higgs-like couplings generates detectable scalar-induced stochastic gravitational waves for BBO and DECIGO, but only outside perturbative low-energy extrapolations.

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  • Dark Matter Freeze-in from a $Z^\prime$ Reheaton hep-ph · 2025-11-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 16 · internal anchor

    Dark matter freezes in from non-thermal Z' decays before reheating ends in an inflationary model with a secluded U(1)_D gauge sector, Z' reheaton, and lattice treatment of non-perturbative effects, opening viable parameter space with GW probes.

  • Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Modulated Reheating astro-ph.CO · 2025-10-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 23 · internal anchor

    A spectator scalar in modulated reheating with large Higgs-like couplings generates detectable scalar-induced stochastic gravitational waves for BBO and DECIGO, but only outside perturbative low-energy extrapolations.

  • CMB signatures of gravity-mediated dark radiation in $\mathbf{\Delta N_{\rm eff}}$ hep-ph · 2026-04-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 78

    Gravity-mediated production of scalar and vector dark radiation yields Planck 2018 constraints on reheating temperature T_RH and background equation of state w_Φ, with comparisons to right-handed neutrinos, ALPs, and a generic spin-2 mediator.

  • Probing non-Gaussianity during reheating with SIGW in the LISA band astro-ph.CO · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 89

    Non-standard reheating imprints detectable features on SIGW spectra via non-Gaussianity, with dynamics that can suppress or boost the signal amplitude for LISA.