Oscillons after Inflation

Oscillons are massive, long-lived, localized excitations of a scalar field. We show that in a class of well-motivated single-field models, inflation is followed by self resonance, leading to copious oscillon generation and a lengthy period of oscillon domination. These models are characterized by an...

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Main Authors: Amin, Mustafa Abdulkader, Easther, Richard, Finkel, Hal, Flauger, Raphael, Hertzberg, Mark Peter
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72475

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