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We present a new mechanism for creating the observed cosmic matter-antimatter asymmetry which satisfies all three Sakharov conditions from one common thread, gravitational waves. We generate lepton number through the gravitational anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-18 Stephon H. S. Alexander , Michael E. Peskin , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

It is widely accepted that the primordial universe experienced a brief period of accelerated expansion called inflation. This scenario provides a plausible solution to the horizon and flatness problems. However, the particle physics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 Sebastien Galtier , Jason Laurie , Sergey V. Nazarenko

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

An axion-like spectator during inflation can trigger a tachyonic instability which amplifies the modes of one of the helicities of the gauge field, resulting in the production of parity-violating gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Jian-Feng He , Chengjie Fu , Kai-Ge Zhang , Zong-Kuan Guo

A violation of the null energy condition (NEC) during inflation in a single-field inflation model will naturally enhance the amplitude of the parity violation effect (defined by $\Delta\chi$) of inflationary primordial gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Yong Cai

We consider inflation driven by an axion-like particle coupled to an SU(2) gauge sector via a Chern-Simons term. Known as chromo-natural inflation, this scenario is in tension with CMB observations. In order to remedy this fact and preserve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Ema Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Martino Michelotti , Lucas Pinol

Inflaton-vector interactions of the type $\phi F\tilde{F}$ have provided interesting phenomenology to tackle some of current problems in cosmology, namely the vectors could constitute the dark matter component. It could also lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Mar Bastero-Gil , António Torres Manso

Axion inflation represents an intriguing source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. In a companion paper, arXiv:2508.00798, we previously leveraged the gradient expansion formalism (GEF) to investigate pure axion inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

In this paper, we study analytically the process of external generation and subsequent free evolution of the lepton chiral asymmetry and helical magnetic fields in the early hot universe. This process is known to be affected by the Abelian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-18 Maksym Sydorenko , Oleksandr Tomalak , Yuri Shtanov

Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

Chiral cosmic strings are naturally produced at the end of D-term inflation and they present very interesting cosmological consequences. In this work, we investigate the formation and evolution of wakes by a chiral string. We show that, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 M. C. B. Abdalla , A. A. Bytsenko , M. E. X. Guimaraes

In this talk, based on arXiv:2301.11345, arXiv:2305.16388, arXiv:2311.12694, we discuss the production of primordial gravitational waves (GW) sourced by graviton bremsstrahlung during inflationary reheating. For reheating, we consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Basabendu Barman , Nicolás Bernal , Simon Cléry , Yann Mambrini , Yong Xu , Óscar Zapata

Gravitational waves are propagating undulations in the spacetime fabric, which interact very weakly with their environment. In cosmology, gravitational-wave distortions are produced by most of the inflationary scenarios and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Despoina Pazouli , Christos G. Tsagas

Assuming that inflation is succeeded by a phase of matter domination, which corresponds to a low temperature of reheating $T_r<10^9\rm{GeV}$, we evaluate the spectra of gravitational waves induced in the post-inflationary universe. We work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Laila Alabidi , Kazunori Kohri , Misao Sasaki , Yuuiti Sendouda

We study the effects of various phenomena which may have happened in the early universe on the spectrum of inflationary gravitational waves. The phenomena include phase transitions, entropy productions from non-relativistic matter, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Ryusuke Jinno , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

In this paper, we investigate the production of gravitational waves during the preheating era. To achieve this purpose, we consider Gauss-Bonnet inflation model with Power{\textendash}law potential, $V(\phi)= V_0 \phi^n$, and monomial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Brahim Asfour , Yahya Ladghami , Taoufik Ouali

Parity violation in the gravitational interaction has an important impact on fundamental observables and the evolution of the universe. We here investigate for the first time our ability to probe the parity violating nature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Nicholas Loutrel , Takahiro Tanaka , Nicolas Yunes

We consider the impact of thermal inflation -- a short, secondary period of inflation that can arise in supersymmetric scenarios -- on the stochastic gravitational wave background. We show that while the primordial inflationary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Richard Easther , John T. Giblin , Eugene A. Lim , Wan-Il Park , Ewan D. Stewart

We investigate the effect of the cuspiness of scalar potentials on the production of gravitational waves during oscillon formation after inflation. We consider a more general form of potentials with a mass parameter $M$, which repoduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-09 Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Gary Shiu

Particle phase transitions in the early universe including electroweak and grand unification ones are well-studied subjects. We point out that there are new possible particle phase transitions around inflation. Those new inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Sichun Sun