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It has been found that the primordial non-Gaussianity of the curvature perturbation in the case of non-Bunch-Davies initial states can be enhanced compared with those in the case of the Bunch-Davies one due to the interactions among the…

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Tensor non-Gaussianity represents an important future probe of the physics of inflation. Inspired by recent works, we elaborate further on the possibility of significant primordial tensor non-Gaussianities sourced by extra fields during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

We develop a possibility of generating tensor non-Gaussianity in a kind of anisotropic inflation, where a $U(1)$ gauge field is kinetically coupled to a spectator scalar field. Owing to this coupling, the coherent mode of the electric field…

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We calculate the bispectrum of scale-invariant tensor modes sourced by spectator SU(2) gauge fields during inflation in a model containing a scalar inflaton, a pseudoscalar axion and SU(2) gauge fields. A large bispectrum is generated in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Aniket Agrawal , Tomohiro Fujita , Eiichiro Komatsu

Teleparallel Gravity is a gauge theory where gravity is a manifestation of the torsion of space-time and its success relies on being a possible solution to some problems of General Relativity. In this essay we introduce the construction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-12 Geovanny A. Rave-Franco , Celia Escamilla-Rivera

We compute the gravitational waveform from a binary system in scalar-tensor gravity at 2PN relative order. We restrict our calculation to non-spinning binary systems on quasi-circular orbits and compute the spin-weighted spherical modes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Noah Sennett , Sylvain Marsat , Alessandra Buonanno

Primary graviton spectra, produced via stimulated emission from an initial Bose-Einstein distribution, are enhanced for typical scales larger than the redshifted thermal wavelength. A mixed state of phonons induces a secondary graviton…

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We investigate the second order gravitational waves induced by the primordial scalar and tensor perturbations during radiation-dominated era. The explicit expressions of the power spectra of the second order GWs are presented. We calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Zhe Chang , Xukun Zhang , Jing-Zhi Zhou

In this paper we consider how non-Gaussianity of the primordial density perturbation and the amplitude of gravitational waves from inflation can be used to determine parameters of the curvaton scenario for the origin of structure. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-22 José Fonseca , David Wands

Inflation predicts a primordial gravitational wave spectrum that is slightly ``red,'' i.e., nearly scale-invariant with slowly increasing power at longer wavelengths. In this paper, we compute both the amplitude and spectral form of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Latham A. Boyle , Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

Supersolid inflation is a class of inflationary theories that simultaneously breaks time and space reparameterization invariance during inflation, with distinctive features for the dynamics of cosmological fluctuations. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Massive spinning particles, if present during inflation, lead to a distinctive bispectrum of primordial perturbations, the shape and amplitude of which depend on the masses and spins of the extra particles. This signal, in turn, leaves an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Hayden Lee , Julian B. Muñoz , Cora Dvorkin

We show that an inflation model in which a spectator axion field is coupled to an SU(2) gauge field produces a large three-point function (bispectrum) of primordial gravitational waves, $B_{h}$, on the scales relevant to the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Aniket Agrawal , Tomohiro Fujita , Eiichiro Komatsu

Primordial non-Gaussianities are key quantities to test early universe scenarios. In this paper, we compute full bispectra of scalar and tensor perturbations generated during a contracting phase in a general bounce model. The general bounce…

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In the Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theories, we derive the three-point correlation function of scalar non-Gaussianities generated during single-field inflation in the presence of slow-variation corrections to the leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Antonio De Felice , Shinji Tsujikawa

We investigate the evolution of cosmological perturbations generated during de Sitter inflation in the conformal gravity. Primordial gravitational waves are composed of vector and tensor modes. We obtain the constant vector and tensor power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-03 Yun Soo Myung , Taeyoon Moon

We consider a generic dispersive massive gravity theory and numerically study its resulting modified energy and strain spectra of tensor gravitational waves (GWs) sourced by (i) fully developed turbulence during the electroweak phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-12 Yutong He , Axel Brandenburg , Aditya Sinha

We study the induced primordial gravitational waves (GW) coming from the effect of scalar perturbation on the tensor perturbation at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. We use the evolution of the standard model degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Fazlollah Hajkarim , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Inflationary models predict a correlation between primordial density perturbations (scalar metric perturbations) and gravitational waves (tensor metric perturbations) in the form of a scalar-scalar-tensor three-point correlation, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Liang Dai , Donghui Jeong , Marc Kamionkowski

The power spectrum has long been the workhorse summary statistics for large-scale structure cosmological analyses. However, gravitational non-linear evolution moves precious cosmological information from the two-point statistics (such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-04 Davide Gualdi , Sergi Novell-Masot , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde