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Parametric resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a periodic structure on the potential gives rise to curvature perturbations with large amplitudes on small scales, which could result in observable primordial black holes (PBHs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Zhi-Zhang Peng , Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

Oscillons are long-lived, localized excitations of nonlinear scalar fields which may be copiously produced during preheating after inflation, leading to a possible oscillon-dominated phase in the early Universe. For example, this can happen…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Shuang-Yong Zhou , Edmund J. Copeland , Richard Easther , Hal Finkel , Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin

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

The spectrum of relic gravitational wave (RGW) contains high-frequency divergences, which should be removed. We present a systematic study of the issue, based on the exact RGW solution that covers the five stages, from inflation to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Dong-Gang Wang , Yang Zhang , Jie-Wen Chen

Cosmological B-L breaking is a natural and testable mechanism to generate the initial conditions of the hot early universe. If B-L is broken at the grand unification scale, the false vacuum phase drives hybrid inflation, ending in tachyonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Wilfried Buchmuller , Valerie Domcke , Kohei Kamada , Kai Schmitz

Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

The primordial gravitational waves (\textbf{PGW}) have been generated by inflationary amplification of the primordial (quantum) fluctuations. It is true that they have not been recorded directly so far, but their spectrum can help a lot in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami , Khabat Ghamari

Working in an arbitrary gauge, we derive the source term for scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW) valid during a general reheating epoch. The dominant energy component is allowed to transition smoothly from an inflaton field to a set…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 M. Laine , S. Procacci

We study the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced from preheating in hybrid inflation models. We investigate different dynamical regimes of preheating in these models and we compute the resulting gravity wave spectra using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-04 Jean Francois Dufaux , Gary N. Felder , Lev Kofman , Olga Navros

We show that gravitational radiation is produced quite efficiently in interactions of classical waves created by resonant decay of a coherently oscillating field. For simple models of chaotic inflation in which the inflaton interacts with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Yu. Khlebnikov , I. I. Tkachev

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

It has recently been shown that specific non-perturbative effects may lead to an explosive decay of flat direction condensates in supersymmetric theories. We confirm explicitly the efficiency of this process with lattice simulations: after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Jean-Francois Dufaux

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Hayato Motohashi

The thermal plasma in the early universe produced a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background, which peaks today in the microwave regime and was dubbed the cosmic gravitational microwave background (CGMB). In previous works only single…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Jacopo Ghiglieri , Jan Schütte-Engel , Enrico Speranza

We consider the production of matter and radiation during reheating after inflation, restricting our attention solely to gravitational interactions. Processes considered are the exchange of a graviton, $h_{\mu \nu}$, involved in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-20 Simon Clery , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

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

We analyze the spectrum of gravitational waves generated by the induced spectrum of tensor fluctuation during warm natural inflation. In our previous work it has been demonstrated that an epoch of warm natural inflation can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-19 Miguel Correa , Mayukh R. Gangopadhyay , Nur Jaman , Grant J. Mathews

Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of these gravitational wave backgrounds on subhorizon scales have been extensively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-30 Elisa Fenu , Daniel G. Figueroa , Ruth Durrer , Juan Garcia-Bellido

In this paper, we investigate D-term inflation within the framework of supergravity, employing the minimal K\"{a}hler potential. Following previous studies that revealed that this model can overcome the $\eta$-problem found in F-term…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 K. El Bourakadi , G. Otalora , A. Burton-Villalobos , H. Chakir , M. Ferricha-Alami , M. Bennai

Parametric resonances provide a mechanism by which particles can be created just after inflation. Thus far, attention has focused on a single or many inflaton fields coupled to a single scalar field. However, generically we expect the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 John T. Giblin , Larry R. Price , Xavier Siemens