The first three seconds: a review of possible expansion histories of the early universe

R Allahverdi, MA Amin, A Berlin, N Bernal… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
It is commonly assumed that the energy density of the Universe was dominated by radiation
between reheating after inflation and the onset of matter domination 54,000 years later …

Higgs inflation

J Rubio - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The properties of the recently discovered Higgs boson together with the absence of new
physics at collider experiments allows us to speculate about consistently extending the …

Planck constraints and gravitational wave forecasts for primordial black hole dark matter seeded by multifield inflation

W Qin, SR Geller, S Balaji, E McDonough, DI Kaiser - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We perform a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of a simple yet generic multifield inflation
model characterized by two scalar fields coupled to each other and nonminimally coupled to …

Parametric resonance production of ultralight vector dark matter

JA Dror, K Harigaya, V Narayan - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
Vector bosons heavier than 10-22 eV can be viable dark matter candidates with distinctive
experimental signatures. Ultralight dark matter generally requires a nonthermal origin to …

Production of purely gravitational dark matter: the case of fermion and vector boson

Y Ema, K Nakayama, Y Tang - Journal of high energy physics, 2019 - Springer
We consider the simplest possibility for a model of particle dark matter in which dark matter
has only gravitational interaction with the standard model sector. Even in such a case, it is …

Implications of stochastic effects for primordial black hole production in ultra-slow-roll inflation

DG Figueroa, S Raatikainen, S Räsänen… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the impact of stochastic noise on the generation of primordial black hole (PBH)
seeds in ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation with numerical simulations. We consider the non …

Gravitational portals with nonminimal couplings

S Cléry, Y Mambrini, KA Olive, A Shkerin, S Verner - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We consider the effects of nonminimal couplings to curvature of the form ξ SS 2 R for three
types of scalars: the Higgs boson, the inflaton, and a scalar dark matter candidate. We …

Primordial black holes from multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings

SR Geller, W Qin, E McDonough, DI Kaiser - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Primordial black holes (PBHs) provide an exciting prospect for accounting for dark matter. In
this paper, we consider inflationary models that incorporate realistic features from high …

The art of simulating the early universe. Part I. Integration techniques and canonical cases

DG Figueroa, A Florio, F Torrenti… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive discussion on lattice techniques for the simulation of scalar
and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe. After reviewing the continuum …

Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field

C Rigouzzo, S Zell - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
General relativity (GR) exists in different formulations. They are equivalent in pure gravity but
generically lead to distinct predictions once matter is included. After a brief overview of …