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Observing Cosmic Reheating with the expanded Simons Observatory

  • Lei Ming
  • Marco Drewes
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Abstract

The Simons Observatory will be extended by three Small Aperture Telescopes by 2027, increasing the total number of these instruments to six. We study the prospects for probing the reheating temperature and the inflaton coupling with this configuration, assuming a discovery of primordial gravitational waves in benchmark scenarios with a tensor-to-scalar ratio r=0.0036 or r=0.01. In popular plateau models of inflation, such an observation would fix the scale of inflation and enable determination of the order of magnitude of the reheating temperature and the inflaton interactions. For QCD-driven Warm Inflation the reheating temperature and inflaton coupling to gluons could, under optimistic assumptions, be measured with a precision of a few percent. Such a measurement would imply a clear prediction for complementary inflaton searches in axion experiments, paving the way toward probing the mechanism responsible for the initial conditions of the hot Big Bang in the laboratory.

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@misc{ming2026observing,
  title = {{Observing Cosmic Reheating with the expanded Simons Observatory}},
  author = {Lei Ming and Marco Drewes},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = jun,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.12519},
  eprint = {2606.12519},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12519},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Observing Cosmic Reheating with the expanded Simons Observatory
AU  - Lei Ming
AU  - Marco Drewes
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/06/10
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.12519
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12519
AB  - The Simons Observatory will be extended by three Small Aperture Telescopes by 2027, increasing the total number of these instruments to six. We study the prospects for probing the reheating temperature and the inflaton coupling with this configuration, assuming a discovery of primordial gravitational waves in benchmark scenarios with a tensor-to-scalar ratio r=0.0036 or r=0.01. In popular plateau models of inflation, such an observation would fix the scale of inflation and enable determination of the order of magnitude of the reheating temperature and the inflaton interactions. For QCD-driven Warm Inflation the reheating temperature and inflaton coupling to gluons could, under optimistic assumptions, be measured with a precision of a few percent. Such a measurement would imply a clear prediction for complementary inflaton searches in axion experiments, paving the way toward probing the mechanism responsible for the initial conditions of the hot Big Bang in the laboratory.
ER  -