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We study the scattering of gravitational waves by axion domain walls in teleparallel gravity with the Nieh-Yan term. Since a domain wall causes the parity violation, the transmitted gravitational waves also exhibit the parity violation. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Jiro Soda , Maki Takeuchi

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) gravity with a dynamical scalar field during slow roll inflation. Due to the parity violation in the CS term, the SIGWs are generally polarized, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized, which provide us a tool to test the possible parity violation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

We consider a scenario with axions/axion-like particles Chern-Simons gravity coupling, such that gravitational waves can be produced directly from axion wave parametric resonance in the early universe after inflation. This axion gravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Mingqiu Li , Sichun Sun , Qi-Shu Yan , Zhijie Zhao

We show that the parametric resonance of gravitational waves occurs due to the axion coherent oscillation and the circular polarization of gravitational waves is induced by the Chern-Simons coupling. However, we have never observed these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Daiske Yoshida , Jiro Soda

The tests of parity symmetry in the gravitational interaction is an attractive issue in the gravitational-wave astronomy. In the general theories of gravity with parity violation, one of the fundamental results is that the primordial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Jin Qiao , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

Within the context of a Chern-Simons running-vacuum-model (RVM) cosmology, one expects an early-matter dominated (eMD) reheating period after RVM inflation driven by the axion field. Treating thus in this work Chern-Simons RVM cosmology as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Charalampos Tzerefos , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Spyros Basilakos , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Nick E. Mavromatos

Within an effective field theory derived from string theory, the universal axion has to be coupled to the the gravitational Chern-Simons (gCS) term. During any era when the axion field is varying, the vacuum fluctuation of the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 David H. Lyth , Carlos Quimbay , Yeinzon Rodriguez

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 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

Dynamical Chern-Simons gravity cannot be strongly constrained with current experiments because it reduces to General Relativity in the weak-field limit. This theory, however, introduces modifications in the non-linear, dynamical regime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-03 Kent Yagi , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

We study the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) from a chiral scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The parity-violating (PV) Lagrangian contains the Chern-Simons (CS) term and PV scalar-tensor terms, which are built of the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

Axion dark matter is interesting as it allows a natural coupling to the gravitational Chern-Simons term. In the presence of an axion background, the gravitational Chern-Simons term produces parity violating effects in the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-13 Chong-Sun Chu , Jiro Soda , Daiske Yoshida

We investigate the propagation of gravitational waves in linearized Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity by considering two nondynamical models for the coupling field $\theta$: (i) a domain wall and (ii) a surface layer of $\theta$, motivated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 A. Martín-Ruiz , L. F. Urrutia

In this paper, we consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity with the identification of the scalar field coupled though the Pontryagin density with the axion dark matter, and we discuss the effects of the parametric resonance on gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata , Takahiro Tanaka , Kei Yamada

We show that helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition generates circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The characteristic frequency of these GWs for an extreme case of the phase transition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Grigol Gogoberidze , Bharat Ratra , ;

We investigate the cosmological constraints on axion models where the domain wall number is greater than one. In these models, multiple domain walls attached to strings are formed, and they survive for a long time. Their annihilation occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-26 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

We investigate axion inflation where the gravitational Chern-Simons term is coupled to a periodic function of the inflaton. We find that tensor perturbations with different polarizations are amplified in different ways by the Chern-Simons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Tao Zhu , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

In this paper we shall consider an axionic Chern-Simons corrected $f(R)$ gravity theoretical framework, and we shall study the chirality of the generated primordial gravitational waves. Particularly, we shall consider two main axion models,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

Domain walls can form after breakdown of a discrete symmetry induced by first-order phase transition, we study the heavy dark matter produced around the temperature of the phase transition that yields the breakdown of a $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Xin Deng , Xuewen Liu , Jing Yang , Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian
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