Reheating an inflationary universe

Andreas Albrecht; Paul J. Steinhardt; Michael S. Turner; Frank Wilczek

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1437

Reheating an inflationary universe

Andreas Albrecht, Paul J. Steinhardt, Michael S. Turner, Frank Wilczek

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A numerical analysis of the evolution of the Higgs expectation value and the temperature of the universe during the symmetry-breaking phase transition in an SU(5) theory with radiatively induced symmetry breaking is presented. It is shown that there is sufficient inflation (exponential expansion) to explain the cosmological homogeneity, isotropy, flatness, and monopole puzzles, and also that the universe reheats to a temperature O(1014 GeV) so that the usual scheme for baryogenesis can proceed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1437-1440
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	48
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1437
State	Published - 1982
Externally published	Yes

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