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We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

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

Supersolid inflation is a class of inflationary theories that simultaneously breaks time and space reparameterization invariance during inflation, with distinctive features for the dynamics of cosmological fluctuations. We investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

We reveal the universality of short-term anisotropic inflation. As a demonstration, we study inflation with an exponential type gauge kinetic function which is ubiquitous in models obtained by dimensional reduction from higher dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-13 Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

We demonstrate the parametric amplification of the stochastic gravitational wave background during inflationary reheating and during axion/moduli oscillations. This amplification enhances the detectability of the string/inflationary gravity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce A. Bassett

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) could be the cold dark matter of the universe. They could have arisen from large (order one) curvature fluctuations produced during inflation that reentered the horizon in the radiation era. At reentry, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Caner Unal

We study the scalar induced gravitational wave (GW) background in inflation with gravitationally enhanced friction (GEF). The GEF mechanism, which is realized by assuming a nonminimal derivative coupling between the inflaton field and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-31 Chengjie Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

This study investigates the realization of R-symmetric Higgs inflation within the framework of no-scale-like supergravity, aiming to elucidate the formation of primordial black holes and observable gravitational waves within a class of GUT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Nadir Ijaz , Mansoor Ur Rehman

We explore a novel process in the early Universe in which thermalized photons are converted into gravitons in the presence of strong primordial magnetic fields. It is found that the frequency of generated gravitational waves (GWs) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) provide a powerful probe of inflationary dynamics on scales far smaller than those accessible to the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure. In scenarios with a transient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Angelo Caravano , Gabriele Franciolini , Sébastien Renaux-Petel

In this paper, we investigate the inflationary phenomenology of parity-violating (PV) extensions of symmetric teleparallel gravity by applying this PV gravity theory to axion inflation. The presence of PV terms induces velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Rongrong Zhai , Chengjie Fu , Xiangyun Fu , Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

In this talk, based on arXiv:2301.11345, arXiv:2305.16388, arXiv:2311.12694, we discuss the production of primordial gravitational waves (GW) sourced by graviton bremsstrahlung during inflationary reheating. For reheating, we consider…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 Basabendu Barman , Nicolás Bernal , Simon Cléry , Yann Mambrini , Yong Xu , Óscar Zapata

We study the effects of various phenomena which may have happened in the early universe on the spectrum of inflationary gravitational waves. The phenomena include phase transitions, entropy productions from non-relativistic matter, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Ryusuke Jinno , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

This thesis focuses on gravitational waves (GWs) that arise beyond linear order in cosmological perturbation theory. In recent years, scalar-induced GWs have attracted significant attention because they may serve as the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Raphael Picard

One of the major predictions of inflation is the existence of a stochastic background of cosmological gravitational waves (GW). These gravitational waves can induce significant temperature anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alessandro Melchiorri , Carolina Odman

We study stochastic gravitational waves generated in a post-inflationary magnetogenesis scenario with time-dependent gauge couplings during inflation and reheating. In this setup, magnetic anisotropic stress directly sources gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Subhasis Maiti

We discuss the implications of purely classical, instead of quantum, theory of gravity for the gravitational wave spectrum generated during inflation. We show that a positive detection of primordial gravitational waves will no longer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-13 Amjad Ashoorioon , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Anupam Mazumdar

Particle phase transitions in the early universe including electroweak and grand unification ones are well-studied subjects. We point out that there are new possible particle phase transitions around inflation. Those new inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Sichun Sun

Preheating and other particle production phenomena in the early Universe can give rise to high- energy out-of-equilibrium fermions with an anisotropic stress. We develop a formalism to calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kari Enqvist , Daniel G. Figueroa , Tuukka Meriniemi

In this paper, we investigate the Axion-like Particle inflation by applying the multi-nature inflation model, where the end of inflation is achieved through the phase transition (PT). The events of PT should not be less than $200$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wei Cheng , Tao Qian , Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Rui-Yu Zhou