Tachyons in Throat Cosmology
Sebastian Halter, Benedict von Harling, Arthur Hebecker

TL;DR
This paper investigates how tachyonic scalars in Randall-Sundrum models influence energy transfer between sectors, significantly impacting cosmological processes like reheating and dark matter decay.
Contribution
It reveals that tachyons have a dominant role in IR-UV energy transfer due to their slow decay profile, affecting cosmological dynamics in throat models.
Findings
Tachyons decay more slowly than massless scalars or gravitons.
Tachyons enhance IR-UV energy transfer rates.
Implications for reheating and dark matter decay in cosmology.
Abstract
Tachyonic 5d scalars are generically present in Randall-Sundrum-like models. In particular, they are known to be part of the 5d effective description of the Klebanov-Strassler throat. When moving from the IR to the UV region, the 5d bulk profile of Kaluza-Klein excitations of tachyons decays more slowly than that of massless scalars or the graviton. As a result, tachyons in many cases dominate the coupling between IR- and UV-localized sectors, leading to a very significant enhancement of energy-transfer or decay rates from the IR to the UV. This can dramatically affect the reheating of the Standard Model after brane inflation and the decay of throat dark matter.
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