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