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We investigate the anisotropies in the gravitational wave (GW) background produced at preheating after inflation. Using lattice field theory simulations of a massless preheating model, we show that the GW amplitude depends sensitively on…

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In this work, we investigate the possibility that supersymmetric structures may leave observable imprints in the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background generated during the reheating era. To this end, we construct a phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 AlexKen Lee , Keyun Wu

The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit and go undetected. Like voices in a crowded room, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arianna I. Renzini , Boris Goncharov , Alexander C. Jenkins , Pat M. Meyers

In this article, we investigate the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) spectrum, resulting from the emission of gravitons through bremsstrahlung, in the decay of particles produced by Hawking radiation. Although particle decays inevitably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Ki-Young Choi , Erdenebulgan Lkhagvadorj , Satyabrata Mahapatra

We investigate the cosmological evolution of gravitational waves in Friedman-Robertson-Walker brane world models embedded in a five dimensional anti de-Sitter spacetime. To predict the spectrum of stochastic gravitational background at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyotomo Ichiki , Kouji Nakamura

We propose a novel mechanism for gravitational wave (GW) production sourced by spectator scalar fields during inflation. These fields, while not driving cosmic expansion, generate blue-tilted isocurvature fluctuations that naturally satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Sarunas Verner

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 due to parametric resonance at the end of inflation, or ``preheating''. This leads to large inhomogeneities which source a stochastic background of gravitational waves at scales inside the comoving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Easther , John T. Giblin , Eugene A. Lim

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

In this work, we revisit the generation of stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) from interactions in the thermal plasma. We extend the existing literature by incorporating the reheating phase into the thermal history. Our results show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Nicolás Bernal , Yong Xu

Stochastic gravitational waves can be produced during the preheating when out-of-equilibrium particles are produced with an anisotropic stress-tensor. We discuss the case where these particles carry spin 3/2. We compute the spectrum of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-11 Karim Benakli , Yifan Chen , Peng Cheng , Gaëtan Lafforgue-Marmet

The concept of early Universe inflation resolves several problems of hot Big Bang theory and quantitatively explains the origin of the inhomogeneities in the present Universe. However, it is not possible to arrange inflation in a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Anna Tokareva

Gravitational waves have become an irreplaceable tool for exploring the post-inflationary universe. Their cosmological and astrophysical origins have been attracting numerous attention. In this Letter, we point out a novel source of…

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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

A variety of mechanisms in the early Universe lead to the generation of gravitational waves (GWs). We introduce here a novel source of GWs generated by vacuum fluctuations after inflation. Given that gravitons are minimally coupled…

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The quantum nature of gravity remains an open question in fundamental physics, lacking experimental verification. Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a potential avenue for detecting gravitons, the hypothetical quantum carriers of gravity.…

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The inflationary reheating phase begins when accelerated expansion ends. As all Standard Model particles are coupled to gravity, gravitational interactions will lead to particle production. This includes the thermal bath, dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Gongjun Choi , Wenqi Ke , Keith A. Olive

We demonstrate the parametric amplification of the stochastic gravitational wave background during inflationary reheating and during axion/moduli oscillations. This amplification enhances the detectability of the string/inflationary gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce A. Bassett

We consider gravitational wave (GW) production during preheating in hybrid inflation models where an axion-like waterfall field couples to Abelian gauge fields. Based on a linear analysis, we find that the GW signal from such models can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 Yanou Cui , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

We study the possibility that particle production during inflation could source observable gravity waves on scales relevant for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. A crucial constraint on such scenarios arises because particle…

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