Reheating after the Higgs Inflation

Abstract

Since the discovery of the Higgs particle in the LHC, numerous inflationary models utilize it as the inflaton. In this study, after establishing that Higgs inflation can be a viable model in the context of unimodular gravity, we address a scenario related to reheating, which plays a crucial role in connecting the inflationary era to a hot Big Bang universe. Also, we calculate essential parameters such as the temperature and the e-folds number according to the equation of the state parameter ($ω_{re}$) in this regime of reheating. The physics behind the reheating process are extremely imprecise at present, and we have only a very limited range of acceptable values for $ω_{re}$. We analyze the compatibility with Planck2018, BICEP/Keck2021, DESI2024, and ACT array bounds and find that within this model, $ω_{re}$ is restricted to the range $ -1 \leq ω_{re} \leq \frac{1}{6} $.