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We study the gravitational wave (GW) signal sourced by primordial turbulence that is assumed to be present at cosmological phase transitions like the electroweak and quantum chromodynamics phase transitions. We consider various models of…

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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…

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We study the inflationary gravitational wave background induced by Abelian gauge fields generated by non-minimal kinetic and axial couplings to the inflaton. We show that, up to slow-roll corrections, for coupling functions that share the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Martin Teuscher , Ruth Durrer , Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

We demonstrate that induced gravitational waves (IGWs) can naturally emerge within the framework of thermal leptogenesis models, thereby providing a robust probe for exploring this theory at remarkably high energy scales. To illustrate this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Marco Chianese , Guillem Domènech , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Rome Samanta , Ninetta Saviano

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity is an interesting extension of General Relativity, which finds its way in many different contexts, including string theory, cosmological settings and loop quantum gravity. In this theory, the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri

Inflationary era of our Universe can be characterized as semi-classical because it can be described in the context of four-dimensional Einsteins's gravity involving quantum corrections. These string motivated corrections originate from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 S. A. Venikoudis , F. P. Fronimos

Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

We discuss a novel mechanism to generate gravitational waves in the early universe. A standard way to produce primordial black holes is to enhance at small-scales the overdensity perturbations generated during inflation. The latter, upon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 V. De Luca , V. Desjacques , G. Franciolini , A. Riotto

We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by domain walls (DWs) during inflation without forming a network. We numerically simulate the DW production caused by a second-order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-06 Haipeng An , Chen Yang

We build upon the past studies of inflation with rank-2 antisymmetric tensor field, including here the tensor perturbations to metric. We perform a comprehensive analysis of the background dynamics of our model in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-09 Sandeep Aashish , Abhilash Padhy , Sukanta Panda

The detection of primordial gravitational waves would offer a direct evidence of inflation and valuable insights into the dynamics of the early universe. During post-inflation reheating period, when the inflaton coherently oscillates at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Diganta Das , Mihika Sanghi , Sourav

The primordial spectrum of fluctuations may present a large peak as a result of enhancing features during inflation. This may include, but is not limited to, bumps in the inflaton's potential, phases of ultra-slow-roll or turns in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-30 Shyam Balaji , Guillem Domenech , Joseph Silk

Out-of-equilibrium fermions can be created in the early Universe by non-perturbative parametric effects, both at preheating or during the thermal era. An anisotropic stress is developed in the fermion distribution, acting as a source of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel G. Figueroa , Tuukka Meriniemi

The combination of non-minimal couplings to gravity with the post-inflationary kinetic-dominated era typically appearing in quintessential inflation scenarios may lead to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of internal symmetries and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-18 Dario Bettoni , Guillem Domènech , Javier Rubio

We study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by non-Gaussian curvature perturbations. We calculate the density parameter per logarithmic frequency interval, $\Omega_\text{GW}(k)$, given that the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Rong-gen Cai , Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

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

In this work, we review gravitational-wave generation in a two-scalar-field cosmological model. The framework relies on a two-field scenario in which warm inflation is unified with the dark sector within a single theoretical description. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Tommaso Mengoni

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves in the hybrid quintessential inflationary model. The full gravitational-wave energy spectrum is calculated using the method of continuous Bogoliubov coefficients. The post-inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Paulo M. Sá , Alfredo B. Henriques

We investigate the gravitational-wave background predicted by a two-scalar-field cosmological model that aims to unify primordial inflation with the dark sector, namely late-time dark energy and dark matter, in a single and self-consistent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Orlando Luongo , Tommaso Mengoni , Paulo M. Sá

We derive consistent equations for gravitational wave oscillations in bigravity. In this framework a second dynamical tensor field is introduced in addition to General Relativity and coupled such that one massless and one massive linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-25 Kevin Max , Moritz Platscher , Juri Smirnov