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Gravitational-wave (GW) signals offer a unique window into the dynamics of the early universe. GWs may be generated by the topological defects produced in the early universe, which contain information on the symmetry of UV physics. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Yunjia Bao , Keisuke Harigaya , Lian-Tao Wang

We study scalar-tensor-tensor and tensor-scalar-scalar three point cross correlations generated by the dynamics of a transiently rolling spectator axion-$\mathrm U(1)$ gauge field model during inflation. In this framework, tensor and scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ogan Özsoy

This thesis focuses on gravitational waves (GWs) that arise beyond linear order in cosmological perturbation theory. In recent years, scalar-induced GWs have attracted significant attention because they may serve as the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Raphael Picard

We study aspects of inflation and the possibility of enhanced production of primordial black holes (PBHs) and gravitational waves (GWs) in a string-inspired model of two axion fields coupled to Chern-Simons gravity, which results in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Nick E. Mavromatos , Vassilis C. Spanos , Ioanna D. Stamou

In this paper we explore the possibility of observable gravitational waves as a manifestation of the QCD axion dynamics. In particular, we focus on dynamical axion models which solve the strong CP problem, and include the confinement of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Djuna Croon , Rachel Houtz , Veronica Sanz

Many models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict a strong first-order phase transition (SFOPT) in the early Universe that leads to observable gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we propose a novel method for presenting and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-09 Tommi Alanne , Thomas Hugle , Moritz Platscher , Kai Schmitz

We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

We study the CMB observables in axion monodromy inflation. These well-motivated scenarios for inflation in string theory have monomial potentials over super-Planckian field ranges, with superimposed sinusoidal modulations from instanton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Raphael Flauger , Liam McAllister , Enrico Pajer , Alexander Westphal , Gang Xu

The cosmological collider provides a model-independent probe of particle physics during inflation. We extend the study of cosmological collider physics to much smaller scales through gravitational wave (GW) probes. With a Chern-Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Yi Wang , Yuhang Zhu

Recent observations of Gravitational Waves (GW) generated by black-hole collisions have opened a new window to explore the universe in diverse scales. Detection of primordial gravitational waves is expected to happen in the next years.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-05 Luis Santiago Ridao , Marcos Ramiro Alfredo Arcodíia , Jesús Martín Romero , Mauricio Bellini

Superradiant instability of ultralight bosons can produce clouds around rotating black holes, whose continuous gravitational wave (GW) emission is a promising observational target. Precise predictions of the signal frequency and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Takuya Takahashi

We provide a derivation from first principles of the primordial bispectrum of scalar perturbations produced during inflation driven by a canonically normalized scalar field whose potential exhibits small sinusoidal modulations. A potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Raphael Flauger , Enrico Pajer

We present analytic results for the gravitational wave power spectrum induced in models where the inflaton is coupled to a fermionic pseudocurrent. We show that although such a coupling creates helically polarized fermions, the polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Peter Adshead , Lauren Pearce , Marco Peloso , Michael A. Roberts , Lorenzo Sorbo

In the framework of axion-gauge fields models, primordial gravitational wave perturbations could be generated during the inflationary epoch from not only the quantum fluctuation of gravitons but also the dynamics of hidden gauge fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-14 Mitsuru Kakizaki , Masahito Ogata , Osamu Seto

On the frequency-amplitude plane, Gravitational Waves (GWs) from cosmic strings show a flat plateau at higher frequencies due to the string loop dynamics in standard radiation dominated post-inflationary epoch. The spectrum may show an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Rome Samanta , Satyabrata Datta

We study the observational signatures of two-form field in the inflationary cosmology. In our setup a two-form field is kinetically coupled to a spectator scalar field and generates sizable gravitational waves and smaller curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) recently detected by the PTA collaborations could be the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by curvature perturbations. However, primordial black holes (PBHs) might be overproduced if the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Primordial gravitational waves provide a very important stochastic background that could be detected soon with interferometric gravitational wave antennas or indirectly via the induced patterns in the polarization anisotropies of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Jean-Francois Dufaux , Daniel G. Figueroa , Juan Garcia-Bellido

We consider a scenario with axions/axion-like particles Chern-Simons gravity coupling, such that gravitational waves can be produced directly from axion wave parametric resonance in the early universe after inflation. This axion gravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Mingqiu Li , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan , Zhijie Zhao

We consider the inflationary universe with a spectator scalar field coupled to a $U(1)$ gauge field and calculate curvature perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs). We find that the sourced GWs can be larger than the one from vacuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata , Takahiro Tanaka , Shuichiro Yokoyama