PAUL SAFFIN paul.saffin@nottingham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Recrudescence of massive fermion production by oscillons
Saffin, Paul M.
Authors
Abstract
We bring together the physics of preheating, following a period of inflation, and the dynamics of non-topological solitons, namely oscillons. We show that the oscillating condensate that makes up an oscillon can be an efficient engine for producing heavy fermions, just as a homogeneous condensate is known for doing the same. This then allows heavy fermions to be produced when the energy scale of the Universe has dropped below the scale naturally associated to the fermions.
Citation
Saffin, P. M. (in press). Recrudescence of massive fermion production by oscillons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(7), Article 126. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07%282017%29126
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Jul 18, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 26, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Aug 3, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 3, 2017 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Electronic ISSN | 1029-8479 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 2017 |
Issue | 7 |
Article Number | 126 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07%282017%29126 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/874643 |
Publisher URL | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP07%282017%29126 |
Files
JHEP07(2017)126. Saffin.pdf
(420 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
You might also like
Quantum tunnelling, real-time dynamics and Picard-Lefschetz thimbles
(2019)
Journal Article
Real-time quantum dynamics, path integrals and the method of thimbles
(2019)
Journal Article
Well-tempered cosmology
(2019)
Journal Article
Boltzmann equations for preheating
(2018)
Journal Article
Rotating kinky braneworlds
(2018)
Journal Article