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This work studies the impact of a new higher-order generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) associated with a QCD-scale first-order phase transition. Assuming a strongly first-order…

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Gravitational waves (GW) can constitute a unique probe of the primordial universe. In many cases, the characteristic frequency of the emitted GW is directly related to the energy scale at which the GW source is operating in the early…

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Gravitino masses above the electroweak scale provide the simplest solution to the gravitino problem, but such large mass scales lie far beyond the reach of collider experiments. We show that the stochastic gravitational wave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Angus Spalding , Stephen F. King

We discuss the polarization signature of primordial gravitational waves imprinted in cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. The high-energy physics motivated by superstring theory or M-theory generically yield parity violating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Shun Saito , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Atsushi Taruya

With the detection of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years, many papers that use simulated GW datasets to constrain dark energy models have been published. However, these works generally consider GW generated by massive astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Sandro M. R. Micheletti

With the observational advance in recent years, primordial gravitational waves (GWs), known as the tensor-mode cosmic perturbations, in the Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) are becoming testable and thus require better framework through which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-11 Wen-Hsuan Lucky Chang , Jiun-Huei Proty Wu

Understanding the interaction of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) plasma is important for observational cosmology. In this article, we provide an analysis of an effect apparently overlooked as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 Dong-Hoon Kim , Sascha Trippe

Large curvature perturbations can source an observable amount of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We consider several scenarios where small-scale curvature perturbations are naturally enhanced due to the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-24 Soubhik Kumar , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang

The observation of primordial gravitational waves could provide a new and unique window on the earliest moments in the history of the universe, and on possible new physics at energies many orders of magnitude beyond those accessible at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-16 Lawrence Krauss , Scott Dodelson , Stephan Meyer

We study the effects of pre-recombination physics on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) anisotropies induced by the propagation of gravitons through the large-scale density perturbations and their cross-correlation with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Matteo Braglia , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

The evidence of the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is reported by multiple pulsar timing array collaborations. While a prominent candidate of the origin is astrophysical from supermassive black hole binaries,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Katsuya T. Abe , Yuichiro Tada

Recent observations from type Ia Supernovae and from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies have revealed that most of the matter of the Universe interacts in a repulsive manner, composing the so-called dark energy constituent of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Santos , S. V. B. Gonçalves , J. C. Fabris , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We investigate the primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) in the general scenario where the inflation is preceded by a pre-inflationary stage with the effective equation of state $w$. Comparing with the results in the usual inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 Kai Wang , Larissa Santos , Jun-Qing Xia , Wen Zhao

We investigate the gravitational wave background from a first order phase transition in a matter-dominated universe, and show that it has a unique feature from which important information about the properties of the phase transition and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Gabriela Barenboim , Wan-Il Park

This talk has the goal of introducing two upcoming exciting avenues of discovery in precision Cosmology: spectral distortions (SDs) and gravitational waves (GWs). The former signals offer a clear window into the state of the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Thomas Kite

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 frequency spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relatively untapped source of data which can allow us to peer beyond the surface of last scattering. Small deviations away from a perfect blackbody shape will encode…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Bryce Cyr

Cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe may produce relics in the form of a network of cosmic defects. Independently of the order of a phase transition, topology of the defects, and their global or gauge nature, the defects are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Daniel G. Figueroa , Mark Hindmarsh , Joanes Lizarraga , Jon Urrestilla

We show that the new precise measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies made by the Planck satellite significantly improves previous constraints on the cosmic gravitational waves background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-17 Luca Pagano , Laura Salvati , Alessandro Melchiorri

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…