4–5 Mar 2025
RIKEN Wako Campus
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Perturbative Reheating and Thermalization

4 Mar 2025, 11:15
1h
435-437 Meeting Room (RIKEN Wako Campus)

435-437 Meeting Room

RIKEN Wako Campus

RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198

Speaker

Dr Kyohei Mukaida (KEK)

Description

In this talk, we will discuss in detail the process of reheating that is dominated by the perturbative decay of inflaton.
Thought it appears to be merely a textbook exercise, we will see that the underlying physical processes are involved, which calls for e.g., the understanding of in-medium cascade of energetic particles.
We will also discuss how this refined understanding affects the predictions based on conventional picture.

Presentation materials