Tufts/CfA/MIT Cosmology Seminar, at Tufts:

Tuesday, May 20, 2003
2:30 pm
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Refreshments at 2:00 in Knipp Library, Room 251

"Numerical Study of Particle Creation in Tunneling Universe"


Dmitri Levkov
Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow

Abstract:

We investigate numerically a minisuperspace model for the tunneling universe filled with massive scalar field conformally coupled to gravity. We find that the tunneling in quantum cosmology is not the same as the one in quantum mechanics. Namely, the matter degree of freedom gets excited under the barrier and makes strong back reaction onto tunneling. This means that the matter particles are copiously produced during the tunneling.

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