@inproceedings{e9c879818f684561980ead852dff028c,
title = "A new approach to the cosmological moduli problem",
abstract = "A generic byproduct of many theories beyond the Standard Model is the appearance of light scalar fields known as moduli. These moduli should be copiously produced in the early universe but have dangerously long lifetimes, leading to their excessive domination of the late-time energy density - an issue known as the {"}cosmological moduli problem{"}. In this talk, we discuss a number of new effects which have direct relevance for the cosmological moduli problem and which, depending on circumstances, can either unexpectedly amerliorate it or worsen it, often by many orders of magnitude. As described more fully in Ref. [1], these effects arise in theories containing multiple moduli which mix amongst themselves in the presence of a mass-generating phase transition.",
author = "Dienes, {Keith R.} and Jeff Kost and Brooks Thomas",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Author(s).; 5th Workshop on Dark Matter, Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics, CETUP* 2015 and 9th International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology, PPC 2015 ; Conference date: 15-06-2015 Through 17-07-2015",
year = "2016",
month = jun,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1063/1.4953270",
language = "English (US)",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Inc.",
editor = "Rouzbeh Allahverdi and Jason Kumar and Louis Strigari and Bhaskar Dutta and Farinaldo Queiroz and Kaladi Babu and Rebecca Surman and Barbara Szczerbinska and Baha Balantekin and Teruki Kamon",
booktitle = "CETUP* 2015 - Workshop on Dark Matter, Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics and PPC 2015 - IXth International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology",
}