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Primordial gravitational waves are a crucial prediction of inflation theory, and their detection through their imprints on the cosmic microwave background is actively being pursued. However, these attempts have not yet been successful. In…

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Gravitational waves (GWs) from gravitational three-body decay (graviton Bremsstrahlung process) can leave an indelible signal at ultrahigh frequencies. We focus on a scenario where superheavy particles are produced gravitationally at a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Ryoto Inui , Yusuke Mikura , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We analyze the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by the induced spectrum of tensor fluctuation during warm natural inflation. In our previous work it has been demonstrated that an epoch of warm natural inflation can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-19 Miguel Correa , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Nur Jaman , Grant J. Mathews

We revise primordial black hole (PBH) formation in the axion-like curvaton model and investigate whether PBHs formed in this model can be the origin of the gravtitational wave (GW) signals detected by the Advanced LIGO. In this model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-28 Kenta Ando , Keisuke Inomata , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kyohei Mukaida , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Neil Barnaby , Jordan Moxon , Ryo Namba , Marco Peloso , Gary Shiu , Peng Zhou

A fast-rolling axion can transfer its kinetic energy to a gauge field via the Chern-Simons coupling, leading to copious production of gauge quanta, which can act as a source of gravitational waves (GWs) with potentially observable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Kai-Ge Zhang , Jian-Feng He , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We propose a new single field inflation model in which the usual slow-roll inflation is joined to a new period of slow-climb and slow-roll inflation through a short intermediate non-inflationary phase. We then show that primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We investigate gravitational waves (GWs) generated in a two-field inflationary model with a non-canonical kinetic term, in which the gravitational Chern-Simons term is coupled to a heavy dynamical field. In such a model, primordial GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Zhi-Zhang Peng , Zhen-Min Zeng , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

As long-lived quasi-solitons from the fragmentation of a scalar condensate, oscillons may dominate the preheating era after inflation. During this period, stochastic gravitational waves can also be generated. We quantify the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Xiao-Xiao Kou , James B. Mertens , Chi Tian , Shuang-Yong Zhou

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

Recent study [1] has suggested that warm inflation may be realized with a minimal extension of the Standard Model by a single scalar inflaton field with an axion-like coupling to gluons. Motivated by this framework, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Quan Chen , Siyu Jiang , Dayun Qiu , Peilin Chen , Fa Peng Huang

Preheating after inflation involves large, time-dependent field inhomogeneities, which act as a classical source of gravitational radiation. The resulting spectrum might be probed by direct detection experiments if inflation occurs at a low…

Gravitational waves from precessing binary black holes exhibit new features that are absent in non-precessionary systems. All current waveform models take into account only the modulation of the signal due to precession. In this letter, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Cheng Zhang , Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang

We consider the possibility of a gravitational wave signal in an asymmetric dark matter model. In this model a generative sector produces both the baryon asymmetry and a dark matter asymmetry in a strong first-order phase transtion. Bubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Iason Baldes

This article deals with the gravitational lensing (GL) of gravitational waves (GW). We compute the increase in the number of detected GW events due to GL. First, we check that geometrical optics is valid for the GW frequency range on which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Arnaud-Varvella , M. -C. Angonin , Ph. Tourrenc

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

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 consider a mechanism for producing a significant population of primordial black holes (PBHs) and an observable stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) within string theory inspired models of inflation. In this framework where…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ogan Özsoy , Zygmunt Lalak

Axion inflation represents an intriguing source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. In a companion paper, arXiv:2508.00798, we previously leveraged the gradient expansion formalism (GEF) to investigate pure axion inflation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

Inflation generates gravitational waves, which may be observable in the low multipoles of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy but only if the inflaton field variation is at least of order the Planck scale. Such a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 David H. Lyth