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Recently, a combined model of the primordial inflation and the present cosmic acceleration has been proposed in the context of f(R) gravity. This model is composed of the late-time acceleration term and an R2 term, which enables the model…

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In many models of inflation, reheating is realized through a coupling between the inflaton and the Higgs boson. Often, the mass of the inflaton is of order $10^{13}~$GeV determined by the amplitude of the scalar fluctuation spectrum.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Yann Cado , Mathieu Gross , Yann Mambrini , Keith Olive

In this paper, we investigate scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) generated in the post-inflationary universe to infer new limits on warm inflation. We specifically examine the evolution of primordial GWs by scalar perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Matteo Califano

We analyze in detail the perturbative decay of the inflaton oscillating about a generic form of its potential $V(\phi) = \phi^k$, taking into account the effects of non-instantaneous reheating. We show that evolution of the temperature as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Kunio Kaneta , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive

We reconsider the enhancement of primordial gravitational waves that arises from a quantum gravitational model of inflation. A distinctive feature of this model is that the end of inflation witnesses a brief phase during which the Hubble…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Maria G. Romania , N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

A variety of mechanisms in the early Universe lead to the generation of gravitational waves (GWs). We introduce here a novel source of GWs generated by vacuum fluctuations after inflation. Given that gravitons are minimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Alina Mierna , Gabriele Perna , Sabino Matarrese , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

We investigate the possibility for a direct detection by future space interferometers of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background generated during the inflationary stage in a class of viable $\Lambda$CDM BSI models. At frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Polarski

The reconstruction of an inflationary universe in the context of one $f(\phi)T$ gravity, in which $T$ corresponds to the trace of energy momentum tensor is studied. To realize this reconstruction during the inflationary epoch, we consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-12 Ramon Herrera , Carlos Rios

We study the generation of baryon asymmetry as well as dark matter (DM) in an extended reheating period after the end of slow-roll inflation. Within the regime of perturbative reheating, we consider different monomial potential of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Basu , Debasish Borah , Amit Chakraborty , Rishav Roshan

Although inflationary models generically predict a flat spectrum of gravitational waves, we point out a general process that produces a sharply peaked spectrum of gravitational radiation. This process is generic for inflationary models with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-28 Anupam Mazumdar , Ian M. Shoemaker

We put the upper bound on the gravitational waves (GWs) induced by the scalar-field fluctuations during the inflation. In particular, we focus on the case where the scalar fluctuations get amplified within some subhorizon scales by some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Keisuke Inomata

We study the primordial gravitational wave background produced in models of single field inflation. Using the inflationary flow approach, we investigate the amplitude of gravitational wave spectrum in the frequency range 1 mHz - 1 Hz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sirichai Chongchitnan , George Efstathiou

We consider models for inflation with a stable inflaton. Reheating is achieved through scattering processes such as $\phi \phi \to h h$, where $h$ is the Standard Model Higgs boson. We consider the reheating process in detail and show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

Inflation is studied in the context of induced gravity (IG) $\gamma \sigma^2 R$, where $R$ is the Ricci scalar, $\sigma$ a scalar field and $\gamma$ a dimensionless constant. We study in detail cosmological perturbations in IG and examine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Cerioni , F. Finelli , A. Tronconi , G. Venturi

Traditional seesaw mechanisms provide an elegant theoretical framework for explaining the small yet non-zero masses of neutrinos. Nevertheless, they face significant experimental challenges, primarily because the energy scale associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Yonghua Wang , Wei Chao

Reheating after inflation occurs due to particle production by the oscillating inflaton field. In this paper we describe the perturbative approach to reheating, and then concentrate on effects beyond the perturbation theory. They are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Alexei Starobinsky

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

The NANOGrav collaboration has published a suspected stochastic GW background signal in its analysis of 12.5 years PTA data, so in this work, we investigate the possibility to explain the signal by the inflationary models with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-13 Tie-Jun Gao

Parametric resonance or preheating is a plausible mechanism for bringing about the transition between the inflationary phase and a hot, radiation dominated universe. This epoch results in the rapid production of heavy particles far from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Easther , John T. Giblin , Eugene A. Lim

Thermal fluctuations in the early universe plasma and in very hot astrophysical objects are an unavoidable source of gravitational waves (GW). Differently from previous studies on the subject, we approach this problem using methods based on…

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