Monday, May 27, 2013

1305.5741 (George Koutsoumbas et al.)

Gravitational Particle Production in Gravity Theories with Non-minimal
Derivative Couplings
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George Koutsoumbas, Konstantinos Ntrekis, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos
We study the gravitational production of heavy X-particles of mass of the order of the inflaton mass, produced after the end of inflation. We find that, in the presence of a derivative coupling of the inflaton field or of the X-field to the Einstein tensor, the number of gravitationally produced particles is suppressed as the strength of the coupling is increased.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5741

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