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We study gravitational wave production in an expanding Universe during the first stages following inflation, and investigate the consequences of the Gauss-Bonnet term on the inflationary parameters for a power-law inflation model with a GB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 K. El Bourakadi , M. Ferricha-Alami , H. Filali , Z. Sakhi , M. Bennai

We investigate a constraint on reheating followed by alpha-attractor-type inflation (the E-model and T-model) from an observation of the spectral index n_s. When the energy density of the universe is dominated by an energy component with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Yoshiki Ueno , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

In this paper, we investigate the production of gravitational waves during the preheating era. To achieve this purpose, we consider Gauss-Bonnet inflation model with Power{\textendash}law potential, $V(\phi)= V_0 \phi^n$, and monomial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Brahim Asfour , Yahya Ladghami , Taoufik Ouali

We study gravitational wave production during kinetic preheating after inflation with a focus on scenarios that arise in $\alpha$-attractor models where a scalar dilaton-like inflaton is kinetically coupled to a second scalar field. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Avery Tishue

We demonstrate that gravitational waves generated by efficient gauge preheating after axion inflation generically contribute significantly to the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom $N_\mathrm{eff}$. We show that, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Mauro Pieroni , Zachary J. Weiner

After the inflationary phase, the universe enters the preheating phase, during which the inflaton field rolls down its potential and oscillates. When the potential significantly deviates from a parabolic shape at its minimum, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

In many models of inflation, the period of accelerated expansion ends with preheating, a highly non-thermal phase of evolution during which the inflaton pumps energy into a specific set of momentum modes of field(s) to which it is coupled.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Richard Easther , Eugene A. Lim

We investigate Power-Law Plateau (PLP) inflation in standard gravity and its consistency with ACT DR6 data. While many inflationary models, including the Starobinsky inflation, are disfavored by ACT observations, the PLP potential remains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Yogesh , Anzhong Wang

The reheating temperature plays a crucial role in the early universe's evolution, marking the transition from inflation to the radiation-dominated era. It directly impacts the number of $e$-folds and, consequently, the observable parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Jaume de Haro , Supriya Pan

We study gravitational wave production from gauge preheating in a variety of inflationary models, detailing its dependence on both the energy scale and the shape of the potential. We show that preheating into Abelian gauge fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Mauro Pieroni , Zachary J. Weiner

The study of reheating in inflationary models is crucial for understanding the early universe and gaining insights into inflationary dynamics and parameters. The reheating temperature $T_{re}$ and the duration of the reheating phase,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Gabriel German , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Luis E. Padilla

One of the most important issues in an inflationary theory as standard or quintessential inflation is the mechanism to reheat the universe after the end of the inflationary period in order to match with the Hot Big Bang universe. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-03 Jaume Haro , Llibert Aresté Saló

We study the evolution of the Universe at early stages, we discuss also preheating in the framework of hybrid braneworld inflation by setting conditions on the coupling constants $\lambda $ and $g$\ for effective production of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-17 K. El Bourakadi , M. Bousder , Z. Sakhi , M. Bennai

We explore the effect of initial conditions on the inflationary wavefunction and their consequences for the observed spectrum of primordial fluctuations. In a class of models with a sudden transition into inflation we find that, for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniel Carney , Willy Fischler , Sonia Paban , Navin Sivanandam

We study the effects of the Gauss-Bonnet term on the energy spectrum of inflationary gravitational waves. The models of inflation are classified into two types based on their predictions for the tensor power spectrum: red-tilted ($n_T<0$)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-15 Seoktae Koh , Bum-Hoon Lee , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

Motivated by $\alpha$-attractor models, in this paper we consider a Gauss-Bonnet inflation with E-model type of potential. We consider the Gauss-Bonnet coupling function to be the same as the E-model potential. In the small $\alpha$ limit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Kourosh Nozari , Narges Rashidi

In this work we study one of the most appealing string theory-motivated models, we present a tachyonic inflationary model in the recently proposed symmetric teleparallel framework, and examine constraints on tachyon inflation with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 K. El Bourakadi , Z. Sakhi , M. Bennai

We investigate how the production of gravitational waves (GWs) is affected by the GW velocity $(c_T)$ during preheating after inflation. For instance, we simulate the production of GWs after $\lambda\phi^4$ chaotic inflation, and find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Ke Wang , Qing-Guo Huang

After Planck 2013, a broad class of inflationary models called \alpha-attractors was developed which has universal observational predictions. For small values of the parameter \alpha, the models have good consistency with the recent CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Mehdi Eshaghi , Moslem Zarei , Nematollah Riazi , Ahmad Kiasatpour

We study post-inflationary evolution in $\alpha$-attractor T-models of inflation. We consider the dynamics of both scalar fields present in these models: the inflaton and the spectator, as a negative field-space curvature may lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Tomasz Krajewski , Krzysztof Turzyński
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