SUSY Flat Direction Decay - the prospect of particle production and preheating investigated in the unitary gauge

Understand

We look at the possibility of non-perturbative particle production after inflation from SUSY flat directions produced by rotating eigenstates thereby avoiding the standard adiabaticity conditions.

• This might lead to preheating and prevent the delay of thermalisation of the universe.
• We investigate the flat directions $LLE^c$ and $U^cD^cD^c$ and find no particle production.
• These 2 directions are very important, since they have been named as possible candidates for being the inflaton.