Achieving the highest temperature during reheating with the Higgs condensate
Achieving the highest temperature during reheating with the Higgs condensate
We study the role of the Standard Model Higgs condensate, formed during cosmological inflation, in the epoch of reheating that follows. We focus on the scenario where the inflaton decays slowly and perturbatively, so that there is a long period between the end of inflation and the beginning of radiation …