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Preheating and Thermalization after Inflation

R. Micha, I. Tkachev

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0301249

Abstract

After a short review of inlationary preheating, we discuss the development of equilibrium in the frameworks of massless λΦ4 model. It is shown that the process is characterised by the appearance of Kolmogorov spectra and the evolution towards thermal equilibrium follows self-similar dynamics. Simplified kinetic theory gives values for all characteristic exponents which are close to what is observed in lattice simulations. This allows estimation of the resulting reheating temperature.

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