Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

Minimal warm inflation with complete medium response

Date: 
15. June 2021
Cite as: 
M. Laine and S. Procacci, JCAP 06 (2021) 031 [arXiv:2102.09913].
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If a homogeneous field evolves within a medium, with the latter gradually picking up a temperature, then the friction felt by the field depends on how its evolution rate compares with medium time scales. We suggest a framework which permits to incorporate the contributions from all medium time scales. As an example, we illustrate how warm axion inflation can be described by inputting the retarded pseudoscalar correlator of a thermal Yang-Mills plasma. Adopting a semi-realistic model for the latter, and starting the evolution at almost vanishing temperature, we show how the system heats up and then enters the “weak” or “strong” regime of warm inflation. Previous approximate treatments are scrutinized.

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