Inflationary scale, reheating scale, and pre-BBN cosmology with scalar fields.

Authors :: Di Marco, Alessandro
Pradisi, Gianfranco
Cabella, Paolo
Source :: Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 12/15/2018, Vol. 98 Issue 12, p1-1. 1p.
Publication Year :: 2018
Abstract: In this paper, we discuss the constraints on the reheating temperature supposing an early postreheating cosmological phase dominated by one or more simple scalar fields produced from inflaton decay and decoupled from matter and radiation. In addition, we explore the combined effects of the reheating and nonstandard scalar field phases on the inflationary number of e-foldings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]