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Journal of High Energy Physics

, 2019:189 | Cite as

Gravitational production of super-Hubble-mass particles: an analytic approach

  • Daniel J. H. Chung
  • Edward W. Kolb
  • Andrew J. LongEmail author
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Abstract

Through a mechanism similar to perturbative particle scattering, particles of mass mχ larger than the Hubble expansion rate Hinf during inflation can be gravitationally produced at the end of inflation without the exponential suppression powers of exp(−mχ/Hinf ). Here we develop an analytic formalism for computing particle production for such massive particles. We apply our formalism to specific models that have been previously been studied only numerically, and we find that our analytical approximations reproduce those numerical estimates well.

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Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM Space-Time Symmetries 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of PhysicsUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonMadisonU.S.A.
  2. 2.Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Enrico Fermi InstituteUniversity of ChicagoChicagoU.S.A.
  3. 3.Leinweber Center for Theoretical PhysicsUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborU.S.A.

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