TY - JOUR
T1 - Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology: Theory and Applications
AU - Allahverdi, Rouzbeh
AU - Brandenberger, Robert
AU - Cyr-Racine, Francis-Yan
AU - Mazumdar, Anupam
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Model particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We review the reheating process with a focus on an in-depth discussion of the preheating stage, which is characterized by exponential particle production due to a parametric resonance or tachyonic instability. We give a brief overview of the thermalization process after preheating and end with a survey of some applications to supersymmetric theories and to other issues in cosmology, such as baryogenesis, dark matter, and metric preheating.
AB - Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Model particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We review the reheating process with a focus on an in-depth discussion of the preheating stage, which is characterized by exponential particle production due to a parametric resonance or tachyonic instability. We give a brief overview of the thermalization process after preheating and end with a survey of some applications to supersymmetric theories and to other issues in cosmology, such as baryogenesis, dark matter, and metric preheating.
U2 - 10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104511
DO - 10.1146/annurev.nucl.012809.104511
M3 - Article
SN - 0163-8998
VL - 60
SP - 27
EP - 51
JO - Annual review of nuclear and particle science
JF - Annual review of nuclear and particle science
ER -