Calculations of inflaton decays and reheating: with applications to no-scale inflation models
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aTheoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology Group, Department of Physics, King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, U.K. bTheory Division, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland cWilliam I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, U.S.A. dGeorge P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, 77843 Texas, U.S.A. eAstroparticle Physics Group, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC), Mitchell Campus, Woodlands, 77381 Texas, U.S.A. fAcademy of Athens, Division of Natural Sciences, 28 Panepistimiou Avenue, Athens 10679, Greece
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