https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7155-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
On preheating in 
-attractor models of inflation
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
* e-mail: krzysztof.turzynski@fuw.edu.pl
Received:
4
November
2018
Accepted:
19
July
2019
Published online:
7
August
2019
We study (p)reheating in -attractor T-models of inflation, taking into account both scalar fields present in these models: the inflaton and the spectator. The two-field model has a negative field-space curvature which, at the end of inflation, may lead to geometrical destabilization of the spectator for small values of 
. We perform the instability (Floquet) analysis of the linear dynamics and fully non-linear lattice computations with our numerical code, which we specifically designed for a class of two-field models with non-canonical kinetic terms. We find that the perturbations of the spectator field are much more unstable than the perturbations of the inflaton field, so the dynamics of the early stages of preheating is dominated by the evolution of the spectator perturbations. As a result, the transition from the inflationary era to radiation domination era is practically instantaneous and much faster than previously found in an effective theory including only the inflaton field.
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