Exit from inflation with a first-order phase transition and a gravitational wave blast

In double-field inflation, which exploits two scalar fields, one of the fields rolls slowly during inflation whereas the other field is trapped in a meta-stable vacuum. The nucleation rate from the false vacuum to the true one becomes substantial enough that triggers a first order phase transition a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amjad Ashoorioon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931500444X