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We present a novel mechanism for gravitational wave generation in the early Universe. Light spectator scalar fields during inflation can acquire a blue-tilted power spectrum due to stochastic effects. We show that this effect can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Reza Ebadi , Soubhik Kumar , Amara McCune , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang

The recent claim by BICEP2 of evidence for primordial gravitational waves from inflation has focused interest on the potential for early-Universe cosmology using observations of gravitational waves. In addition to cosmic microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-11 John T. Giblin , Eric Thrane

The stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background provides a fascinating window to the physics of the very early universe. Beyond the nearly scale-invariant primordial GW spectrum produced during inflation, a spectrum with a much richer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Stefan Antusch , Francesco Cefala , Stefano Orani

Kination denotes an era in the cosmological history corresponding to an equation of state $\omega=+1$ such that the total energy density of the universe redshifts as the sixth inverse power of the scale factor. This arises if the universe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Yann Gouttenoire , Geraldine Servant , Peera Simakachorn

We present a study of spectrum estimation of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) as a Gaussian stochastic background from output signals of future space-borne interferometers, like LISA and ASTROD. As the target of detection, the analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Bo Wang , Yang Zhang

Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yan-Heng Yu , Sai Wang

Cosmological phase transitions in the primordial universe can produce anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (GWB), similar to the cosmic microwave background (CMB). For adiabatic perturbations, the fluctuations in GWB follow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Soubhik Kumar , Raman Sundrum , Yuhsin Tsai

The evolution of the universe started from a hot and dense Big Bang point. Temperature fluctuation map of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation and initial seeds of large scale structures (LSS) are explained by an inflationary period…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Vahid Kamali

This study explores the realization of nonminimally coupled Higgs inflation in the context of no-scale supergravity, investigates the formation of primordial black holes, and examines the potential for observable proton decay within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Nadir Ijaz , Maria Mehmood , Mansoor Ur Rehman

The gravitational waves measured at LIGO are presumed here to come from merging primordial black holes. We ask how these primordial black holes could arise through inflationary models while not conflicting with current experiments. Among…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-11 Nicholas Orlofsky , Aaron Pierce , James D. Wells

We discuss a cosmological scenario with a stochastic background of gravitational waves sourced by the tensor perturbation due to a hybrid inflationary model with cubic potential. The tensor-to-scalar ratio for the present hybrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Rinsy Thomas , Jobil Thomas , Supin P Surendran , Minu Joy

In this contribution we discuss the possibility of generating an observable gravitational wave (GW) background by coupling a pseudo-scalar inflaton to some Abelian gauge fields. This analysis is performed by dividing inflationary models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 Mauro Pieroni

The shortcomings of the Standard Big Bang Cosmological Model as well as their resolution in the context of inflationary cosmology are discussed. The inflationary scenario and the subsequent oscillation and decay of the inflaton field are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Lazarides

Inflation generically predicts a stochastic background of gravitational waves over a broad range of frequencies, from those accessible with cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements, to those accessible directly with gravitational-wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tristan L. Smith , Marc Kamionkowski , Asantha Cooray

The combined Planck, BICEP/Keck Array and BAO measurements of the scalar spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio from the cosmic microwave background observations severely constrain or completely rule out several models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Diganta Das , Shreyas Revankar

The early expansion history of the Universe is constrained by combining the most recent limits on the cosmic gravitons in the audio band and the claimed evidences of the nHz domain. The simplest scenario stipulates that between the end of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Massimo Giovannini

This study investigates the realization of R-symmetric Higgs inflation within the framework of no-scale-like supergravity, aiming to elucidate the formation of primordial black holes and observable gravitational waves within a class of GUT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Nadir Ijaz , Mansoor Ur Rehman

In this paper we analyze the spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves (GWs) predicted in the Standard Model*Axion*Seesaw*Higgs portal inflation (SMASH) model, which was proposed as a minimal extension of the Standard Model that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-25 Andreas Ringwald , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Carlos Tamarit

We revisit the possibility that the stochastic common-spectrum process recently detected by the NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment could be due to primordial gravitational waves (GWs). A na\"{i}ve extrapolation down to interferometer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Micol Benetti , Leila Lobato Graef , Sunny Vagnozzi

As the strong evidence for inflation, the relic gravitational waves (RGW) have been extensively studied. Although, it has not been detected, yet some constraints have been achieved by the observations. Future experiments for the RGW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang