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Scatterings whose cross sections increase as the cosmic temperature decreases, known as temperature - enhanced scatterings, can have a significant impact on the thermal effective potential of scalar fields responsible for driving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Arnab Chaudhuri

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

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

In this paper, we revisit the estimation of the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves originated from inflation, particularly focusing on the effect of thermodynamics in the Standard Model of particle physics. By collecting recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-18 Ken'ichi Saikawa , Satoshi Shirai

We calculate the reheating temperature in scenarios where heavy particles are gravitationally produced during a phase transition. We explore two distinct situations: the decay of these particles both during and after the kination phase.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Jaume de Haro

We present the spectrum of primordial gravitational wave (GW) expected from the presence of primordial black holes (PBH) and inflaton in the early Universe. For the first time, we combine the waves produced by the PBH decay, with their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Mathieu Gross , Md Riajul Haque , Yann Mambrini

We study the gravitational wave (GW) production in extremely strong first order phase transitions where the latent heat density dominates the plasma energy density, $\alpha \gtrsim 1$. In such transitions, bubbles develop extremely thin and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Ryusuke Jinno , Hyeonseok Seong , Masahiro Takimoto , Choong Min Um

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

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

We consider the space-condensate inflation model to study the primordial gravitational waves generated in the early Universe. We calculate the energy spectrum of gravitational waves induced by the space-condensate inflation model for full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Seoktae Koh , Bum-Hoon Lee , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

In the instant preheating scenario efficient particle production occurs immediately following the period of inflationary expansion in the early Universe. We demonstrate that instant preheating predicts unique gravitational wave (GW) signals…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Wei-Yu Hu , Kazunori Nakayama , Volodymyr Takhistov , Yong Tang

Reheating after inflation can proceed even if the inflaton couples to Standard Model (SM) particles only gravitationally. However, particle production during the transition between de-Sitter expansion and a decelerating Universe is rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Michał Artymowski , Olga Czerwińska , Zygmunt Lalak , Marek Lewicki

On the frequency-amplitude plane, Gravitational Waves (GWs) from cosmic strings show a flat plateau at higher frequencies due to the string loop dynamics in standard radiation dominated post-inflationary epoch. The spectrum may show an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Rome Samanta , Satyabrata Datta

We study the production of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) from first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in extensions of the Standard Model based on Flavour Deconstruction (FD). The link fields inherent to FD generically form a rich…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Noemi Fabri , Gino Isidori , Davide Racco

This project is aimed at studying the first-order phase transitions, that is presumed to have ensued in the early universe, and its consequences on the primordial gravitational waves. The effects of bubble nucleation, growth, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Yashmitha Kumaran

Whether or not the primordial gravitational wave (GW) produced during inflation is sufficiently strong to be observable, GWs are necessarily produced from the primordial curvature perturbations in the second order of perturbation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-02 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO-Virgo and pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has opened a new window into early universe cosmology. Yet, the origin of large-scale magnetic fields and the dynamics of the reheating epoch remain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Subhasis Maiti

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

We investigate the properties of a stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in the regime of extreme supercooling. We study a scenario whereby the percolation temperature that signifies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-09 Archil Kobakhidze , Cyril Lagger , Adrian Manning , Jason Yue

In many particle physics models, domain wall can form during the phase transition process after discrete symmetry breaking. We study the scenario within a complex singlet extended Standard Model framework, where a strongly first order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Ruiyu Zhou , Jing Yang , Ligong Bian