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Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the candidates to explain the gravitational wave (GW) signals observed by the LIGO detectors. Among several phenomena in the early Universe, cosmic inflation is a major example to generate PBHs from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Yuichiro Tada , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

In this paper, we investigate chiral gravitational wave (GW) signals generated from inflation to reheating, driven by a parity-violating (PV) term coupled to the inflaton. During inflation, the PV term reduces the sound horizon for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Chengjie Fu , Chao Chen , Yi Wang

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

Inflation models ending in a first order phase transition produce gravitational waves (GW) via bubble collisions of the true vacuum phase. We demonstrate that these bubble collisions can leave an observable signature in Advanced LIGO, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-16 Alejandro Lopez , Katherine Freese

We present an in depth discussion of the production of gravitational waves from an inflationary phase that could have occurred in the early universe, giving derivations for the resulting spectrum and energy density. We also consider the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Martin White

Following inflation, the Universe may pass through an early matter-dominated phase supported by the oscillating inflaton condensate. Initially small fluctuations in the condensate grow gravitationally on subhorizon scales and can collapse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Benedikt Eggemeier , Jens C. Niemeyer , Karsten Jedamzik , Richard Easther

It is often said that detecting a spectrum of primordial gravitational waves via observing B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background is the "Holy Grail" of inflation. The purpose of this short note is to point out that it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Robert H. Brandenberger

This study presents a computational framework for evaluating the detectability of white hole-induced gravitational wave signals and their imprints on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The approach integrates stochastic gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Antonios Valamontes , Ioannis Adamopoulos

This chapter describes how the Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background induces a specific type of CMB polarization and describes the first experiment dedicated to testing this most-promising signature of inflation. This experiment, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Brian G. Keating

The next generation of instruments designed to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) will provide a historic opportunity to open the gravitational wave window to the primordial Universe. Through high sensitivity…

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected recently by the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) observations may have cosmological origins. In this work we consider a model of single field inflation containing an intermediate phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Hassan Firouzjahi , Alireza Talebian

Preheating after inflation involves large, time-dependent field inhomogeneities, which act as a classical source of gravitational radiation. The resulting spectrum might be probed by direct detection experiments if inflation occurs at a low…

Primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) are predicted to origin from inflation, according to which a period of accelerated expansion exists in the very early Universe. The detection of PGWs would verify the inflationary theory and determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Wenshuai Liu

We study detection prospects of a gravitational-wave background (GWB) sourced by SU(2) gauge fields considering all possible observational constraints. More precisely, we consider bounds set by cosmic microwave background measurements,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Charles Badger , Hannah Duval , Tomohiro Fujita , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Alba Romero-Rodríguez , Mairi Sakellariadou

We analyze the damping of inflationary gravitational waves (GW) that re-enter the Hubble horizon before or during a post-inflationary era dominated by a meta-stable, right-handed neutrino (RHN), whose out-of-equilibrium decay releases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Zafri A. Borboruah , Frank F. Deppisch , Anish Ghoshal , Lekhika Malhotra

We show that next generation Cosmic Microwave Background experiments will be capable of the first ever measurement of the inflaton coupling to other particles, opening a new window to probe the connection between cosmic inflation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Marco Drewes , Lei Ming

I discuss the current status of inflationary cosmology in light of the recent WMAP 3-year data release. The basic predictions of inflation are all supported by the data. Inflation also makes predictions which have not been well tested by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 William H. Kinney

With the detection of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years, many papers that use simulated GW datasets to constrain dark energy models have been published. However, these works generally consider GW generated by massive astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Sandro M. R. Micheletti

Observations of the polarization of the cosmic microwave backround (CMB) have the potential to place much tighter constraints on cosmological parameters than observations of the fluctuations in temperature alone. We discuss using CMB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William H. Kinney

The anisotropy study cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the main observational tools for modern cosmology. However, alongside the study of the thermal fluctuations of the CMB are other equally important information, which is known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-18 Alexander Bonilla Rivera