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The detection of primordial gravitational waves would offer a direct evidence of inflation and valuable insights into the dynamics of the early universe. During post-inflation reheating period, when the inflaton coherently oscillates at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Diganta Das , Mihika Sanghi , Sourav

A thermal gravitational wave background can be produced in the early Universe if a radiation dominated epoch precedes the usual inflationary stage. This background provides a unique way to study the initial state of the Universe. We discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 W. Zhao , D. Baskaran , P. Coles

Relic gravitational waves (RGWs) generated in the early Universe form a stochastic GW background, which can be directly probed by measuring the timing residuals of millisecond pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Xiao-Jin Liu , Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

We study gravitational wave production during Abelian gauge-field preheating following inflation. We consider both scalar and pseudoscalar inflaton models coupled directly to Abelian gauge fields via either a dilatonic coupling to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Zachary J. Weiner

We are in the era of precision cosmology which offers us a unique opportunity to investigate beyond standard model physics. Toward this endeavor, inflaton is assumed to be a perfect new physics candidate. In this submission, we explore the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Ayan Chakraborty , Md Riajul Haque , Debaprasad Maity , Rajesh Mondal

Relic gravitational waves (RGWs) , a background originated during inflation, would give imprints on the pulsar timing residuals. This makes RGWs be one of important sources for detection using the method of pulsar timing. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-16 Ming-Lei Tong , Yong-Heng Ding , Cheng-Shi Zhao , Feng Gao , Bao-Rong Yan , Ting-Gao Yang , Yu-Ping Gao

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

We point out that the existence of post-inflationary phases stiffer than radiation leads to the production of stochastic gravitational waves (GW) backgrounds whose logarithmic energy spectra (in critical units) are typically "blue" at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Massimo Giovannini

In the present paper, we perform a sub-Planckian quantum mode analysis of linear cosmological perturbation in the inflaton field over a classical quasi de-Siter metric background by dynamical horizon exit (DHE) method. In this way, we probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Arunoday Sarkar , Buddhadeb Ghosh

We study gravitational waves generated during the inflationary epoch in presence of a decaying cosmological parameter on a 5D geometrical background which is Riemann flat. Two examples are considered, one with a constant cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Silvina Paola Gomez Martinez , Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Mauricio Bellini

An improved version of the well-known Peebles-Vilenkin model unifying early inflationary era to current cosmic acceleration, is introduced in order to match with the theoretical values of the spectral quantities provided by it with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-16 Jaume Haro , Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan

We construct a model of quintessential inflation in Palatini $R^2$ gravity employing a scalar field with a simple exponential potential and coupled to gravity with a running non-minimal coupling. At early times, the field acts as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Alexandros Karam , Samuel Sánchez López , Eemeli Tomberg

In this paper we study the behaviour of gravitational wave background (GWB) generated during inflation in the environment of the noncommutative field approach. From this approach we derive out one additive term, and then we find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi-Fu Cai , Yun-Song Piao

The inflationary paradigm is an important cornerstone of the concordance cosmological model. However, standard inflation cannot fully address the transition from an early homogeneous and isotropic stage, to another one lacking such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-08 Mauro Mariani , Gabriel R. Bengochea , Gabriel Leon

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

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

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) offers a new opportunity to observe signals of primordial features from inflationary models. We study their detectability with future space-based gravitational waves experiments, focusing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

In this study, we investigate the full nonlinear dynamics of warm inflation driven by the quartic inflaton potential, avoiding any simplifying approximations. The thermal backreaction is incorporated through a dissipation coefficient that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Bhargabi Saha , Malay K. Nandy

Phase transitions during inflation can generate a stochastic gravitational-wave background that probes primordial physics. We study the detectability and parameter reconstruction of such a signal with a space-based gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Qingyuan Liang , Chen Yang , Haipeng An , Huai-Ke Guo

We demonstrate that gravitational waves generated by efficient gauge preheating after axion inflation generically contribute significantly to the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom $N_\mathrm{eff}$. We show that, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Mauro Pieroni , Zachary J. Weiner