Tachyonic Preheating and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
| dc.creator | Garcia-Bellido, Juan | |
| dc.date | 2001-06-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-25T18:25:59Z | |
| dc.description | We discuss the recent scenario of tachyonic preheating at the end of inflation as a consequence of a tachyonic mass term in the scalar field responsible for spontaneous symmetry breaking. We use 3D lattice simulations to expore this very non-perturbative and non-linear phenomenon, which occurs due to the spinodal instability of the scalar field. Tachyonic preheating is so efficient that symmetry breaking typically completes within a single oscillation of the field distribution as it rolls towards the minimum of its effective potential. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, LaTeX, uses moriond.sty (included), plus 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of Moriond 2001, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, Les Arcs, France (January 20-27, 2001) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0106164 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0106164 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/55294 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Tachyonic Preheating and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking | |
| dc.type | text |