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arxiv: hep-ph/0210152 · v1 · submitted 2002-10-09 · ✦ hep-ph

Preheating in Quintessential Inflation

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keywords preheatingproductionfieldgravitationalinflationmechanismparticlequintessential
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We perform a numerical study of the preheating mechanism of particle production in models of quintessential inflation and compare it with the usual gravitational production mechanism. We find that even for a very small coupling between the inflaton field and a massless scalar field, g > 10^{-9}, preheating dominates over gravitational particle production. Reheating temperatures in the range 10^{-2} GeV < T_{rh} < 10^{15} GeV can be easily obtained.

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