Speaker
Nathan Musoke
(University of New Hampshire)
Description
Near-exponential growth during primordial inflation must eventually be followed by big bang nucleosynthesis. The reheating processes that occur in the transition between the two can affect the inflationary power spectrum and dark matter abundance. If the inflaton field is not disrupted by resonance or prompt reheating, perturbations growth gravitationally. I will present the first simulations of this gravitational growth of non-linear perturbations in the inflaton condensate at the end of inflation.
Author
Nathan Musoke
(University of New Hampshire)
Co-authors
Shaun Hotchkiss
(University of Auckland)
Prof.
Richard Easther
(University of Auckland)
