English
Related papers

Related papers: Primordial Stochastic Gravitational Waves from Mas…

200 papers

Early matter-dominated eras (EMDEs) are a natural feature arising in many models of the early universe and can generate a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) during the transition from an EMDE to the radiation-dominated universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 Nicolas Fernandez , Joshua W. Foster , Benjamin Lillard , Jessie Shelton

Gravitational waves are propagating undulations in the spacetime fabric, which interact very weakly with their environment. In cosmology, gravitational-wave distortions are produced by most of the inflationary scenarios and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Despoina Pazouli , Christos G. Tsagas

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) can undoubtedly serve as a messenger from the early Universe acting as well as a novel probe of the underlying gravity theory. In this work, motivated by one-loop vacuum-polarization effects on curved spacetime, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 Theodoros Papanikolaou , Charalampos Tzerefos , Salvatore Capozziello , Gaetano Lambiase

With the detection of gravitational waves (GW) in recent years, many papers that use simulated GW datasets to constrain dark energy models have been published. However, these works generally consider GW generated by massive astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-25 Sandro M. R. Micheletti

We discuss the detectability of gravitational waves with a time dependent mass contribution, by means of the stochastic gravitational wave observations. Such a mass term typically arises in the cosmological solutions of massive gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-13 A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Chunshan Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Norihiro Tanahashi

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

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

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami

The cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background produced by the mildly non-linear evolution of density fluctuations is analyzed, in the frame of an Einstein-de Sitter model, by means of a fully relativistic perturbation expansion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese , Silvia Mollerach

Upcoming searches for the stochastic background of inflationary gravitational waves (GWs) offer the exciting possibility to probe the evolution of our Universe prior to Big Bang nucleosynthesis. In this spirit, we explore the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-20 Francesco D'Eramo , Kai Schmitz

In realistic model-building, spinor fields with various masses are present. During inflation, spinor field may induce gravitational waves as a second order effect. In this paper, we calculate the contribution of single massive spinor field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Kaixi Feng , Yun-Song Piao

In string theory inspired models of axion-like fields, sub-leading non-perturbative effects, if sufficiently large, can introduce steep cliffs and gentle plateaus onto the underlying scalar potential. During inflation, the motion of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-22 Ogan Özsoy

We explore the production of gravitational waves (GW) resulting from a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a non-minimally coupled `Dark Higgs Inflation' model. Utilizing a dark sector scalar field as the inflaton, we demonstrate how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Jörn Kersten , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park , Juhoon Son , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

Gravitational waves (GWs) are produced by colliding particles through the gravitational analogue of electromagnetic bremsstrahlung. We calculate the contribution of free-free emission in the radiation-dominated Universe to the stochastic GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Betty X. Hu , Abraham Loeb

First order phase transitions are well-motivated and extensively studied sources of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. The vacuum energy released during such transitions is assumed to be transferred primarily either to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Ryusuke Jinno , Bibhushan Shakya , Jorinde van de Vis

Inflation generates gravitational waves, which may be observable in the low multipoles of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy but only if the inflaton field variation is at least of order the Planck scale. Such a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 David H. Lyth

[Abridged] The primary gravitational waves (PGWs) are generated in the early universe from the quantum vacuum during inflation. In slow roll inflation, the power spectrum (PS) of PGWs over large scales, which leave the Hubble radius during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Alipriyo Hoory , Jerome Martin , Arnab Paul , L. Sriramkumar

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) from gravitational three-body decay (graviton Bremsstrahlung process) can leave an indelible signal at ultrahigh frequencies. We focus on a scenario where superheavy particles are produced gravitationally at a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Ryoto Inui , Yusuke Mikura , Shuichiro Yokoyama