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We construct a single-field model of inflation that achieves remarkable agreement with Planck and BICEP/Keck cosmological observations. The model, via the presence of an ultra-slow-roll phase, generates a sizable scalar-induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Lorenzo Frosina , Alfredo Urbano

We study the trispectrum of the gravitational waves (GWs) generated through the dynamics of an axionic spectator field and SU(2) gauge fields during inflation. In non-Abelian gauge theory, the gauge fields have four-point self-interactions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-06 Tomohiro Fujita , Kai Murai , Ippei Obata , Maresuke Shiraishi

We investigate the possibility to induce double peaks of gravitational wave(GW) spectrum from primordial scalar perturbations in inflationary models with three inflection points.Where the inflection points can be generated from a polynomial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Tie-Jun Gao , Xiu-Yi Yang

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

We study the gravitational wave (GW) emission of sources perturbed by periodic dynamical forces which do not cause secular evolution in the orbital elements. We construct a corresponding post-Newtonian waveform model and provide estimates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-24 Lorenz Zwick , Christopher Tiede , Alessandro A. Trani , Andrea Derdzinski , Zoltan Haiman , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Johan Samsing

We present a new realization of the resonant production of primordial black holes as well as gravitational waves in a two-stage inflation model consisting of a scalar field \phi with an axion-monodromy-like periodic structure in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Zihan Zhou , Jie Jiang , Yi-Fu Cai , Misao Sasaki , Shi Pi

We study the inflationary model with a spectator scalar field $\chi$ coupled to both the inflaton and Ricci scalar. The interaction between the $\chi$ field and the gravity, denoted by $\xi R\chi^2$, can trigger the tachyonic instability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Zhe Yu , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We investigate cosmological vacuum amplification of gravitational waves in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity. We develop a comprehensive framework to compute graviton production induced by the parity violating Pontryagin coupling and study its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Stephon Alexander , Heliudson Bernardo , Yiya Selina Li , Cooper Niu

It is widely accepted that the primordial universe experienced a brief period of accelerated expansion called inflation. This scenario provides a plausible solution to the horizon and flatness problems. However, the particle physics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-17 Sebastien Galtier , Jason Laurie , Sergey V. Nazarenko

Gravitational waves provide a novel way to probe axions or axion-like particles coupled to a dark photon field, even in the absence of couplings to Standard Model particles. In the conventional misalignment mechanism, the generation of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Eric Madge , Wolfram Ratzinger , Daniel Schmitt , Pedro Schwaller

The motion of a pseudo-scalar field $X$ during inflation naturally induces a significant amplification of the gauge fields to which it is coupled. The amplified gauge fields can source characteristic scalar and tensor primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Marco Peloso , Lorenzo Sorbo , Caner Unal

The stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background provides a fascinating window to the physics of the very early universe. Beyond the nearly scale-invariant primordial GW spectrum produced during inflation, a spectrum with a much richer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Stefan Antusch , Francesco Cefala , Stefano Orani

In this work, we systematically study gravitational wave (GW) production during both the inflationary and post-inflationary epochs. While inflationary GWs can be readily derived from tensor perturbations during inflation, post-inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Xun-Jie Xu , Yong Xu , Qiqin Yin , Junyu Zhu

A cosmological gravitational wave background resulting from space-time quantum perturbations at energy scales of $\sim 10^{15}$GeV is expected as a consequence of the general relativity theory in the context of the standard cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Soares-Santos , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We study the gravitational wave (GW) production induced by the asymmetric jets of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The asymmetric jets result in a recoil force acted on the central compact object, whose motion leads to emission of GW. Under…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Shuang Du , Xiao-Dong Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Fang-Kun Peng , Miao Li

In the present work, we have studied the spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves due to magnetic instability in the presence of neutrino asymmetry. The magnetic instability generates a helical magnetic field on a large scale. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-23 Arun Kumar Pandey , Pravin Kumar Natwariya , Jitesh R Bhatt

We study gravitational waves generated during the inflationary epoch in presence of a decaying cosmological parameter on a 5D geometrical background which is Riemann flat. Two examples are considered, one with a constant cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Silvina Paola Gomez Martinez , Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Mauricio Bellini

We study the production of gravitational waves during oscillations of the inflaton around the minimum of a cuspy potential after inflation. We find that a cusp in the potential can trigger copious oscillon formation, which sources a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-23 Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai , Gary Shiu

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 study the observational signatures from particle production of a $U(1)$ gauge field kinetically coupled to an inflaton. Regarding the form of gauge kinetic function, we consider the possibility that it becomes stabilized at a certain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Masahiro Kawasaki , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Ippei Obata