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BULK VISCOSITY IMPACT ON THE SCENARIO OF WARM INFLATION
The decay of the inflaton into radiation and particles during the slow-roll suggests that these may interact with each other and that the latter may also decay into subproducts before inflation is completed. As a consequence, the fluid is no longer perfect and a nonnegligible bulk viscosity necessarily sets in. We write the corresponding equations as an autonomous system and study the asymptotic behavior, the conditions for the existence of scaling solutions, and show that the late time effect of fluid dissipation alleviates the depletion of matter and increases the duration of inflation.
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General relativity as a cosmological attractor of scalar-tensor gravity theories
Abstract We investigate the relaxation of general scalar-tensor gravity theories towards general relativity. We extend Damour and Nordtvedt's work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 70 (1993) 2217; Phys. Rev. D 48 (1993) 3436] by including a cosmological potential. We find that Einstein's gravity is indeed a cosmological attractor both for isotropic and anisotropic universes, and that the universe exhibits inflationary expansion during the relaxation process.
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On the potentials yielding cosmological scaling solutions
In the present work we perform a phase-plane analysis of the complete dynamical system corresponding to a flat FRW cosmological models with a perfect fluid and a self-interacting scalar field and show that every positive and monotonous potential which is asymptotically exponential yields a scaling solution as a global attractor.
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Stability analysis of cosmological models through Lyapunov's method
We investigate the general asymptotic behaviour of Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) models with an inflaton field, scalar-tensor FRW cosmological models and diagonal Bianchi-IX models by means of Lyapunov's method. This method provides information not only about the asymptotic stability of a given equilibrium point but also about its basin of attraction. This cannot be obtained by the usual methods found in the literature, such as linear stability analysis or first-order perturbation techniques. Moreover, Lyapunov's method is also applicable to non-autonomous systems. We use this advantage to investigate the mechanism of reheating for the inflaton field in FRW models.
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Slow roll inflation without fine tuning
Abstract The slow-roll approximation is the usual starting point to study the constraints imposed on the inflaton potential parameters by the observational data. We show that, for a potential exhibiting at least two extrema and giving rise to a limited inflationary period, slow-roll does not have to be taken as an additional hypothesis and is in fact forced by the constraints on the number of e-foldings.
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Reheating induced by competing decay modes
We address the problem of studying the decay of the inflaton field $\ensuremath{\phi}$ to another scalar field $\ensuremath{\chi}$ through parametric resonance in the case of a coupling that involves several decay modes. This amounts to the presence of extra harmonic terms in the perturbation of the $\ensuremath{\chi}$ field dynamics. For the case of two frequencies we compute the geometry of the resonance regions, which is significantly altered due to the presence of noncuspidal resonance regions associated to higher harmonics and to the emergence of instability ``pockets.'' We discuss the effect of this change in the efficiency of the energy transfer process for the simplest case of a coupling given by a combination of the two interaction terms of homogeneous degree usually considered in the literature. We find that the presence of higher harmonics has limited cosmological implications.
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On the theory of the invisible arion
Models with an ''invisible'' arion, a massless Goldstone particle interacting weakly with quarks and leptons, are considered. The coupling constant with photons, which is needed for the occurrence of arion--photon oscillations in an external magnetic field, is estimated.
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Evolution of semilocal string networks: large-scale properties
We report on a detailed numerical study of the evolution of semilocal string networks, based on the largest and most accurate field theory simulations of these objects to date. We focus on the large-scale network properties, confirming earlier indications (coming from smaller simulations) that linear scaling is the attractor solution for the entire parameter space of initial conditions that we are able to probe. We also provide a brief comparison of our numerical results with the predictions of a previously developed one-scale model for the overall evolution of these networks. Two subsequent papers will discuss in more detail the analytic modeling of the semilocal segment populations as well as optimized numerical diagnostics.
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First results on $A_1^p$ and $g_1^p$ at low x and low $Q^2$ from COMPASS
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Observation of a New Narrow Axial-Vector Meson a1(1420).
The COMPASS Collaboration at CERN has measured diffractive dissociation of 190  GeV/c pions into the π(-)π(-)π(+) final state using a stationary hydrogen target. A partial-wave analysis (PWA) was performed in bins of 3π mass and four-momentum transfer using the isobar model and the so far largest PWA model consisting of 88 waves. A narrow peak is observed in the f0(980)π channel with spin, parity and C-parity quantum numbers J(PC)=1(++). We present a resonance-model study of a subset of the spin-density matrix selecting 3π states with J(PC)=2(++) and 4(++) decaying into ρ(770)π and with J(PC)=1(++) decaying into f0(980)π. We identify a new a1 meson with mass (1414(-13)(+15))  MeV/c2 and width (153(-23)(+8))  MeV/c2. Within the final states investigated in our analysis, we observe the new a1(1420) decaying only into f0(980)π, suggesting its exotic nature.