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In warm inflation, dissipation due to the interactions of the inflaton field to other light degrees of freedom leads naturally to the enhancement of the primordial spectrum during the last 10-20 efolds of inflation. We study this effect in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Mar Bastero-Gil , Marta Subías Díaz-Blanco

The spectrum of the gravitational wave background originating from quantum fluctuations during inflation is calculated numerically for various inflation models over a wide range of frequencies. We take into account four ingredients : the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-04 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

We show that a detectable tensor-to-scalar ratio $(r\ge 10^{-3})$ on the CMB scale can be generated even during extremely low energy inflation which saturates the BBN bound $\rho_{\rm inf}\approx (30 {\rm MeV})^4$. The source of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Namba , Yuichiro Tada

Chain inflation proceeds through a series of first order phase transitions, which can release considerable gravitational waves (GW). We demonstrate that bubble collisions can leave an observable signature for future high-frequency probes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-22 Amjad Ashoorioon , Katherine Freese

In this paper, we investigate the Axion-like Particle inflation by applying the multi-nature inflation model, where the end of inflation is achieved through the phase transition (PT). The events of PT should not be less than $200$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wei Cheng , Tao Qian , Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Rui-Yu Zhou

Inflation generates gravitational waves, which may be observable in the low multipoles of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy but only if the inflaton field variation is at least of order the Planck scale. Such a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 David H. Lyth

The existence of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs implies that a gravitational wave (GW) background is generated by the decay products of the Higgs, soon after the end of inflation. Theoretically, all Yukawa and $SU(2)_L$ gauge couplings of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-07 Daniel G. Figueroa

Large excursion of the inflaton field can trigger interesting dynamics. One important example is a first-order phase transition in a spectator sector which couples to the inflaton. Gravitational waves (GWs) from such a first-order phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-13 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

We investigate the gravitational particle production from vacuum for a minimally coupled fermionic spectator field during a single-field inflationary phase. We observe that metric perturbations arising from the quantum fluctuations of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo

We show that gravitational radiation is produced quite efficiently in interactions of classical waves created by resonant decay of a coherently oscillating field. For simple models of chaotic inflation in which the inflaton interacts with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Yu. Khlebnikov , I. I. Tkachev

We investigate the production and detection of gravitational waves (GWs) within the framework of Gravitational Quantum Field Theory (GQFT). In this theory, GWs exhibit five propagating modes: one scalar, two vector, and two tensor modes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Yuan-Kun Gao , Da Huang , Yue-Liang Wu

Generation of magnetic fields during inflation is a promising mechanism for the origin of the observed large scale magnetic fields in the universe. Among several attempts, a popular model is one where the inflaton and the electromagnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ramkishor Sharma , Kandaswamy Subramanian , T. R. Seshadri

The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of such new physics. In particular, they could point to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Haipeng An , Boye Su , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang , Chen Yang

Parametric resonance is among the most efficient phenomena generating gravitational waves (GWs) in the early Universe. The dynamics of parametric resonance, and hence of the GWs, depend exclusively on the resonance parameter $q$. The latter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-17 Daniel G. Figueroa , Francisco Torrenti

We investigate the possibility for a direct detection by future space interferometers of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background generated during the inflationary stage in a class of viable $\Lambda$CDM BSI models. At frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Polarski

We consider the effects of the quantum stress tensor fluctuations of a conformal field in generating gravity waves in inflationary models. We find a non-scale invariant, non-Gaussian contribution which depends upon the total expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-08 Chun-Hsien Wu , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , L. H. Ford , Kin-Wang Ng

We systematically investigate the preheating behavior of single field inflation with an oscillon-supporting potential. We compute the properties of the emitted gravitational waves (GWs) and the number density and characteristics of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Takashi Hiramatsu , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis , Masahide Yamaguchi

We consider gravitational wave production during inflation in type IIB string theory, and the possibility of observable gravitational waves in small field inflation. We show that the gauge field excitations on a set of coincident D7 branes,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-21 Evan McDonough , Stephon Alexander

We investigate scalar-induced stochastic gravitational waves from adiabatic curvature perturbations sourced by a spectator field via the modulated reheating mechanism. We consider a spectator scalar with Higgs-like couplings and inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Michele Benaco , Dimitrios Karamitros , Sami Nurmi , Kimmo Tuominen

We study the inflationary gravitational wave background induced by Abelian gauge fields generated by non-minimal kinetic and axial couplings to the inflaton. We show that, up to slow-roll corrections, for coupling functions that share the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau