%0 Journal Article %T Parametric resonance in dissipative field dynamics %A Ramos %A Rudnei O. %A Vartuli %A R. A. S. %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332008000400026 %X the effects of bosonic trilinear interactions are investigated in the process of resonant particle production. we study a generic model of three fields with trilinear couplings. in this model a scalar field ¦Õ can excite a heavy bosonic field ¦Ö which then decays into a light bosonic field ¦Ò. we study the consequences of dissipation and stochastic noise terms in the field equations of motion that result from a calculation in nonequlibrium quantum field theory and determine the effects of these terms for the phenomenon of parametric resonance, which can occur e.g. during preheating after inflation. %K parametric resonance %K particle production %K nonequlibrium dynamics. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332008000400026&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en