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We present three-dimensional direct numerical simulations of the production of magnetic fields and gravitational waves (GWs) in the early Universe during a low energy scale matter-dominated post-inflationary reheating era, and during the…

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The reheating of the universe by the evaporation of light primordial black holes (PBHs) can leave a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background in the early Universe. In the monochromatic limit, their simultaneous evaporation produces an…

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Mounting evidence suggests that the semi-classical description of a black hole breaks down at the latest after losing an O(1) fraction of its mass. As a result, effects such as memory burden can slow down evaporation so that small…

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One of the predictions from simple inflation models is stochastic background of Gravitational Waves (\textbf{GW}), or literally what is called Primordial Gravitational Waves (\textbf{PGW}) with a nearly scale--invariant spectrum. To discuss…

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We analyze the damping of inflationary gravitational waves (GW) that re-enter the Hubble horizon before or during a post-inflationary era dominated by a meta-stable, right-handed neutrino (RHN), whose out-of-equilibrium decay releases…

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The detection of Primordial Gravitational Waves (PGWs) is one of the most important goals of modern cosmology since PGWs can both provide substantial evidence for primordial inflation and shed light on its physical nature. Small scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 William Giarè , Alessandro Melchiorri

After the inflationary phase, the universe enters the preheating phase, during which the inflaton field rolls down its potential and oscillates. When the potential significantly deviates from a parabolic shape at its minimum, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel del-Corral , Paolo Gondolo , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

In the past two decades, significant advancements have been made in observational techniques to enhance our understanding of the universe and its evolutionary processes. However, our knowledge of the post-inflation reheating phase remains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Subhasis Maiti , Debaprasad Maity , Rohan Srikanth

Cosmological perturbations, originating in the quantum fluctuations of the fields that drive inflation, are observed to be nearly scale invariant at the largest scales. At smaller scales, however, perturbations are not severely constrained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Ioannis Dalianis

Chain inflation proceeds through a series of first order phase transitions, which can release considerable gravitational waves (GW). We demonstrate that bubble collisions can leave an observable signature for future high-frequency probes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-22 Amjad Ashoorioon , Katherine Freese

We propose a unified framework where the totality of dark matter (DM), the baryon asymmetry of the universe, and a detectable stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background originate from ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflation. The drastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Shyam Balaji

The recent observations from CMB have imposed a very stringent upper-limit on the tensor/scalar ratio $r$ of inflation models, $r < 0.064$, which indicates that the primordial gravitational waves (PGW), even though possible to be detected,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Taotao Qiu , Taishi Katsuragawa , Shulei Ni

The induced gravitational wave (GW) background from enhanced primordial scalar perturbations is one of the most promising observational consequences of primordial black hole (PBH) formation from inflation. We investigate the induced GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-12 Shyam Balaji , Joseph Silk , Yi-Peng Wu

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

In this work, we explore primordial black holes (PBH) formation scenario during the post-inflationary preheating stage dominated by the inflaton field. We consider, in particular, a model-independent parametrization of the Gaussian peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Daniel del-Corral , K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

Near comoving wavenumber k, the gravitational-wave background (GWB) from inflation carries information about the physical conditions near two moments in cosmic history: the moment when k ``left the horizon'' during inflation, and the moment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Latham A. Boyle , Paul J. Steinhardt

Primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) are predicted to origin from inflation, according to which a period of accelerated expansion exists in the very early Universe. The detection of PGWs would verify the inflationary theory and determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Wenshuai Liu

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

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…

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