GUT baryogenesis after preheating: numerical study of the production and decay of X-bosons

Abstract

We perform a fully non-linear calculation of the production of supermassive Grand Unified Theory (GUT) $X$ bosons during preheating, taking into account the fact that they are unstable with a decay width ${\Gamma }_X$. We show that parametric resonance does not develop if ${\Gamma }_X$ is larger than about $10^{-2}{m}_X$. We compute the nonthermal number density of superheavy bosons produced in the preheating phase and demonstrate that the observed baryon asymmetry may be explained by GUT baryogenesis after preheating if ${\Gamma }_X$ is smaller than about $10^{-3}{m}_X$.

Comments: 13 pages, LaTeX file, 3 figures. One reference added and minor changes