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Production of spin 3/2 particles from vacuum fluctuations

Antonio L. Maroto, Anupam Mazumdar

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9904206

Abstract

We study the production of spin 3/2 particles in homogeneous scalar and gravitational backgrounds from the mode-mixing Bogolyubov method. Considering only helicity 3/2 states we can reduce the problem to a standard Dirac fermion calculation and apply the standard techniques in a straightforward way. As an example we consider a supergravity inflationary model and calculate the spectrum of gravitinos created during preheating at the end of inflation.

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