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There is a growing expectation that the gravitational wave detectors will start probing the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds in the following years. We explore the spectral shapes of gravitational waves induced to second order by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ioannis Dalianis , Konstantinos Kritos

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves in the hybrid quintessential inflationary model. The full gravitational-wave energy spectrum is calculated using the method of continuous Bogoliubov coefficients. The post-inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Paulo M. Sá , Alfredo B. Henriques

We study the evolution of gravitational waves through the preheating era that follows inflation. The oscillating inflaton drives parametric resonant growth of scalar field fluctuations, and although super-Hubble tensor modes are not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Tilley , Roy Maartens

The (large-scale) structures we observe in the Universe are classical, but within the inflationary scenario they do originate from quantum fluctuations. This leads to the question: ''How did this quantum-to-classical transition occur?''. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Jessie de Kruijf , Giacomo Galloni , Nicola Bartolo

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) spectrum resulting from graviton bremsstrahlung during inflationary reheating. We focus on an inflaton $\phi$ oscillating around a generic monomial potential $V(\phi) \propto \phi^n$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-10 Nicolás Bernal , Simon Cléry , Yann Mambrini , Yong Xu

The production of GWs during preheating in the Starobinsky model with a nonminimally coupled auxiliary scalar field is studied through the lattice simulation in this paper. We find that the GW spectrum $\Omega_{\rm gw}$ grows fast with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Guoqiang Jin , Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

After cosmic inflation, coherent oscillations of the inflaton field about a monomial potential $V(\phi)\sim \phi^k$ result in an expansion phase characterized by a stiff equation-of-state $w\simeq(k-2)/(k+2)$. Sourced by the oscillating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Mathias Pierre

Inflation produces a primordial spectrum of gravity waves in addition to the density perturbations which seed structure formation. We compute the signature of these gravity waves in the large scale shear field. In particular, the shear can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott Dodelson , Eduardo Rozo , Albert Stebbins

We compute the gravitational leptogenesis generated from the parity-violating gravitational waves sourced by an abelian gauge field coupled to a pseudo-scalar inflation. We show that, once the CMB bound on the tensor-to-scalar ratio is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexandros Papageorgiou , Marco Peloso

A fundamental property of the Standard Model is that the Higgs potential becomes unstable at large values of the Higgs field. For the current central values of the Higgs and top masses, the instability scale is about $10^{11}$ GeV and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-24 José Ramón Espinosa , Davide Racco , Antonio Riotto

The generic prediction for the perturbations generated during slow--roll, single--field inflation, as they appear in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), is a flat, close--to--Gaussian spectrum. We calculate the general solution for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gupta

We study gravitational wave production during kinetic preheating after inflation with a focus on scenarios that arise in $\alpha$-attractor models where a scalar dilaton-like inflaton is kinetically coupled to a second scalar field. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Avery Tishue

One of the fundamental characteristics of slow roll inflation is its generation of tensor perturbations, which manifest as stochastic gravitational waves (GWs). Slow roll inflation results in a nearly scale-invariant GW spectrum that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Suvashis Maity , Md Riajul Haque

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

This paper evaluates and compares the gravitational wave and density perturbation contributions to the cosmic microwave background radiation, on the basis of the same power law inflationary model. The inflation to radiation transition is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. B. Henriques , L. E. Mendes , R. G. Moorhouse

In this talk we present a mechanism for leptogenesis which is based on gravity waves produced during inflation. We show that when inflation is driven by a pseudo-scalar field the metric perturbations generated during inflation can become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-18 S. H. Alexander , M. Peskin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We obtained the analytic solutions of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) for the slow-roll inflation with a power-law form potential of the scalar field, $V=\lambda\phi^n$. Based on a reasonable range of $n$ constrained by cosmic microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Ming-Lei Tong

The recent observations from CMB have imposed a very stringent upper-limit on the tensor/scalar ratio $r$ of inflation models, $r < 0.064$, which indicates that the primordial gravitational waves (PGW), even though possible to be detected,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Taotao Qiu , Taishi Katsuragawa , Shulei Ni

We show that a scalar excited state with large occupation numbers during inflation leads to an enhancement of tensor modes and a characteristic pattern of order-one oscillations in the associated stochastic gravitational wave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-07 Jacopo Fumagalli , Gonzalo A. Palma , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Spyros Sypsas , Lukas T. Witkowski , Cristobal Zenteno

When a (non-)Abelian gauge field acquires an isotropic background configuration during inflation, strong gravitational waves (GWs) with parity-violating polarization, known as chiral GWs, can be produced in addition to the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Katsuki Aoki , Tomohiro Fujita , Ryodai Kawaguchi , Kazuki Yanagihara