Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology: Theory and Applications
Reheating in Inflationary Cosmology: Theory and Applications
Reheating is an important part of inflationary cosmology. It describes the production of Standard Matter particles after the phase of accelerated expansion. We give a review of the reheating process, focusing on an in-depth discussion of the preheating stage which is characterized by exponential particle production due to a parametric …