Reheating constraints on modified quadratic chaotic inflation

Abstract

The reheating era of inflationary universe can be parameterized by various parameters like reheating temperature Tre, reheating duration Nre and average equation of state parameter wre, which can be constrained by observationally feasible values of scalar power spectral amplitude As and spectral index ns. In this work, by considering the quadratic chaotic inflationary potential with logarithmic correction in mass, we examine the reheating era in order to place some limits on model’s parameter space. By investigating the reheating epoch using Planck 2018+BK18+BAO data, we show that even a small correction can make the quadratic chaotic model consistent with latest cosmological observations. We also find that the study of reheating era helps to put much tighter constraints on model and effectively improves accuracy of model.