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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…

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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 investigate density fluctuations and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) arising from the production of long-lived solitons and oscillons, which can dominate the early Universe and drive reheating prior to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

Due to the universality of gravitational interactions, it is generally expected that a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background could form during the reheating period when the inflaton perturbatively decays with the emission of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Da Huang , Lu Yin

The scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) is a useful tool to probe the physics in the early universe. To study inflationary models with this tool, we need to know how the waveform of SIGWs is related to the shape of the scalar power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-01 Fengge Zhang , Arshad Ali , Yungui Gong , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu

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

The gravitational wave equations form a parametric resonance system during oscillatory reheating after inflation, when cast in terms of the electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor. This is in direct analogy with preheating. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Bruce A. Bassett

We discuss gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a heavy spectator field that starts to oscillate during inflation. During the oscillation of the spectator field, its effective mass can also oscillate in some potentials. This mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Keisuke Inomata

We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of the production of magnetic fields and gravitational waves (GWs) in the early Universe during a low energy scale matter-dominated post-inflationary reheating era, and during the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Axel Brandenburg , Ramkishor Sharma

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Alina Mierna , Gabriele Perna , Sabino Matarrese , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

We investigate how perturbative reheating after inflation modifies the primordial gravitational wave (GW) spectrum generated by cosmological phase transitions. Within a specific inflationary setup, we show that the thermodynamic quantities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Basabendu Barman , Maciej Kierkla , Marek Lewicki , Marco Merchand

We study the primordial gravitational wave background produced in models of single field inflation. Using the inflationary flow approach, we investigate the amplitude of gravitational wave spectrum in the frequency range 1 mHz - 1 Hz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sirichai Chongchitnan , George Efstathiou

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 of oscillon formation during the preheating phase of asymmetric inflationary potentials. We analytically establish the existence of oscillon-like solutions for the Klein-Gordon equation for a polynomial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Rafid Mahbub , Swagat S. Mishra

We investigate the properties of gravitational waves generated by heating induced phase transitions in warm inflation. In this scenario, the heating phase of inflation followed by subsequent cosmological cooling can trigger two associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

Under certain conditions, the oscillating inflaton condensate filling the Universe after inflation can fragment and form so-called oscillons. These long-lived soliton-like field configurations can dominate the Universe for several $e$-folds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Misao Sasaki , Jan Tränkle

The post-inflationary production of supermassive particles can have profound implications for the thermal history of the universe and may leave observable imprints in the gravitational wave (GW) background. In scenarios where the inflaton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Shinya Kanemura , Kunio Kaneta , Dibyendu Nanda

We investigate a novel gravitational wave (GW) production mechanism from gravitons generated during the pre-thermal phase of cosmic reheating, where the energy density is dominated by non-thermalized inflaton decay products, dubbed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Nicolás Bernal , Quan-feng Wu , Xun-Jie Xu , Yong Xu

We explore the possibility of multi-parametric resonances from time varying sound speed during cosmological inflation. In particular, we fix our set-up to the simpler case beyond a single oscillation model already explored in literature:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Andrea Addazi , Salvatore Capozziello , Qingyu Gan

We revisit graviton production via Bremsstrahlung from the decay of the inflaton during inflationary reheating. Using two complementary computational techniques, we first show that such 3-body differential decay rates differ from previously…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Basabendu Barman , Nicolás Bernal , Yong Xu , Óscar Zapata