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Scalar induced gravity waves from ultra slow-roll Galileon inflation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2024-09-23 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider the production of secondary gravity waves in Galileon inflation with an ultra-slow roll (USR) phase and show that the spectrum of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in this case is consistent with the recent NANOGrav 15-year data and with sensitivities of other ground and space-based missions, LISA, BBO, DECIGO, CE, ET, HLVK (consists of aLIGO, aVirgo, and KAGRA), and HLV(03). Thanks to the non-renormalization property of Galileon theory, the amplitude of the large fluctuation is controllable at the sharp transitions between SR and USR regions. We show that the behaviour of the GW spectrum, when one-loop effects are included in the scalar power spectrum, is preserved under a shift of the sharp transition scale with peak amplitude ΩGWh2O(106)\Omega_{\rm GW}h^2\sim {\cal O}(10^{-6}), and hence it can cover a wide range of frequencies within O(109Hz107Hz){\cal O}(10^{-9}{\rm Hz} - 10^{7}{\rm Hz}). An analysis of the allowed mass range for primordial black holes (PBHs) is also performed, where we find that mass values ranging from O(1M1018M){\cal O}(1M_{\odot} - 10^{-18}M_{\odot}) can be generated over the corresponding allowed range of low and high frequencies.

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@article{arxiv.2308.09273,
  title  = {Scalar induced gravity waves from ultra slow-roll Galileon inflation},
  author = {Sayantan Choudhury and Ahaskar Karde and Sudhakar Panda and M. Sami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.09273},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

29 pages, 5 figures, Comments are welcome, Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B