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Gravitational Particle Production of Scalars: Analytic and Numerical Approaches Including Early Reheating

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arxiv 2410.03938 v2 pith:ZPDOOSBB submitted 2024-10-04 hep-ph astro-ph.COgr-qchep-th

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Cosmological gravitational particle production (GPP) is a generic mechanism by which particles are produced during the inflationary epoch. In this work we consider the GPP of massive scalars in an effort to fully understand the spectrum of the produced particles. We consider scalars which are conformally or minimally coupled to gravity, as well as models of both early and late reheating. We numerically calculate the particle production in each scenario and compare the results to analytic approximations from boundary matching, Stokes phenomenon, steepest descent, and inflaton scattering methods. For each method, we describe the regime of validity and show that there is good agreement between the analytic and numerical results.

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