Particle production is examined within the context of brane cosmology. Non-perturbative formalisms are reviewed and employed to calculate particle number (or the energy density associated with such particles) produced in dynamical spacetimes arising from various brane configurations. Specifically, reheating from tachyon condensation, the quantum instability of a class of S-brane spacetimes, and particle production on an orbiting brane-antibrane system are investigated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.80328 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Martineau, Patrick |
| Contributors | Burgess, C. P. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002095393, proquestno: AAIMQ98697, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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