2–3 Jun 2025
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Cosmological gravitational particle production: Starobinsky vs Bogolyubov, uncertainties, and issues

2 Jun 2025, 11:00
30m
MB4.2 (Macadam Building)

MB4.2

Macadam Building

King's College London, Strand

Speaker

Duarte Miguel da Silva Feiteira (University of Helsinki)

Description

Gravitational particle production provides an ever-present background in non-thermal dark matter studies. I discuss the correspondence between the Starobinsky and Bogolyubov approaches to the problem of inflationary particle production, and derive strong constraints on frameworks with scalar dark relics.

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