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String length constraining from the stochastic gravitational waves background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-10-19 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We study the stochastic gravitational waves from string gas cosmology. With the help of the Lambert W function, we derive the exact energy density spectrum of the stochastic gravitational waves in term of tensor-to-scalar. New feathers with the spectrum are found. First, the non-Hagedorn phase can be ruled out by the current B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background. Second, the exact spectrum from the Hagedorn phase with a logarithmic term is shown to be unique in the measurable frequency range. Third, which is the most important, we find the string length can be constrained to be lower than 7 \sim orders of that Planck scale.

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@article{arxiv.2105.05027,
  title  = {String length constraining from the stochastic gravitational waves background},
  author = {Hongguang Zhang and Xilong Fan and Yufeng Li and Minglei Tong and Hongsheng Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05027},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures

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