(P)reheating Effects of a Constrained Kähler Moduli Inflation Model

2021/07/20 by Khan, Islam, Worthey, Guy, Vincent, Aaron C.
#Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2107.09580

Abstract

In this talk, I discuss the effects, viability, and predictions of the string-theory-motivated Kähler Moduli Inflation I (KMII) potential, coupled to a light scalar field χ, which can provide a possible source for today's dark energy density due to the potential's non-vanishing minimum. Although the model is consistent with the current measured Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, tighter constraints from future observations are required to test the viability of the KMII potential with its minimum equivalent to the observed cosmological constant's energy density ρ_Λ_obs. We implement a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling method to compute the allowed model parameter ranges and bounds on the inflaton's mass m_ϕ and reheating temperature T_reh. Additionally, our lattice simulations predict stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds generated during the inflaton oscillations that would be observable today in the 10⁹-10¹¹ Hz frequency range. All the results and details will be included in our upcoming paper with the same title.

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