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We study the production of gravitational waves from primordial scalar perturbations in double-inflection-point inflation, in which one of the inflection points predicts the power spectra consistent with CMB observations at large scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Wu-Tao Xu , Jing Liu , Tie-Jun Gao , Zong-Kuan Guo

We demonstrate that Chromo-Natural Inflation can be made consistent with observational data if the SU(2) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. Working in the Stueckelberg limit, we show that isocurvature is negligible, and the resulting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Peter Adshead , Emil Martinec , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis , Mark Wyman

With an energy scale that can be as high as $10^{14}\,{\rm GeV}$, inflation may provide a unique probe of high-energy physics. Both scalar and tensor fluctuations generated during this early accelerated expansion contain crucial information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-25 Laura Iacconi , Matteo Fasiello , Hooshyar Assadullahi , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , David Wands

We discuss the gravitational waves (GW) in the context of vector inflation. We derive the action for tensor perturbations and find that tachyonic instabilities are present in most (but not all) of the inflationary models with large fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-20 Alexey Golovnev , Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Vitaly Vanchurin

During inflation long wavelength gravitational waves are produced, which form stochastic background in the present universe with very wide range of frequencies. Higher frequency gravitational waves never experience super-Hubble-radius…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Kamil Mudrunka , Kazunori Nakayama

Using numerical simulations of helical inflationary magnetogenesis in a low reheating temperature scenario, we show that the magnetic energy spectrum is strongly peaked at a particular wavenumber that depends on the reheating temperature.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Axel Brandenburg , Yutong He , Ramkishor Sharma

One of the most important issues in an inflationary theory as standard or quintessential inflation is the mechanism to reheat the universe after the end of the inflationary period in order to match with the Hot Big Bang universe. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-03 Jaume Haro , Llibert Aresté Saló

The spectrum of the gravitational wave background originating from quantum fluctuations during inflation is calculated numerically for various inflation models over a wide range of frequencies. We take into account four ingredients : the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-04 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

We investigate the production of a spectator scalar dark matter field that is directly coupled to the inflaton during inflation and reheating. We consider two specific inflationary potentials, namely the Starobinsky and T-model of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Mathias Pierre , Sarunas Verner

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

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

We study gravitational wave production during kinetic preheating after inflation with a focus on scenarios that arise in $\alpha$-attractor models where a scalar dilaton-like inflaton is kinetically coupled to a second scalar field. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Avery Tishue

We study the possibility of using the $LiteBIRD$ satellite $B$-mode survey to constrain models of inflation producing specific features in CMB angular power spectra. We explore a particular model example, i.e. spectator axion-SU(2) gauge…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 P. Campeti , E. Komatsu , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , N. Bartolo , A. Carones , J. Errard , F. Finelli , R. Flauger , S. Galli , G. Galloni , S. Giardiello , M. Hazumi , S. Henrot-Versillé , L. T. Hergt , K. Kohri , C. Leloup , J. Lesgourgues , J. Macias-Perez , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , T. Matsumura , L. Montier , T. Namikawa , D. Paoletti , D. Poletti , M. Remazeilles , M. Shiraishi , B. van Tent , M. Tristram , L. Vacher , N. Vittorio , G. Weymann-Despres , A. Anand , J. Aumont , R. Aurlien , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , A. Basyrov , M. Bersanelli , D. Blinov , M. Bortolami , T. Brinckmann , E. Calabrese , F. Carralot , F. J. Casas , L. Clermont , F. Columbro , G. Conenna , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , P. de Bernardis , M. De Petris , S. Della Torre , E. Di Giorgi , P. Diego-Palazuelos , H. K. Eriksen , C. Franceschet , U. Fuskeland , M. Galloway , M. Georges , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , C. Gimeno-Amo , E. Gjerløw , A. Gruppuso , J. Gudmundsson , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , M. Lembo , A. I. Lonappan , S. Masi , M. Massa , S. Micheli , A. Moggi , M. Monelli , G. Morgante , B. Mot , L. Mousset , R. Nagata , P. Natoli , A. Novelli , I. Obata , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , V. Pavlidou , F. Piacentini , M. Pinchera , G. Pisano , G. Puglisi , N. Raffuzzi , A. Ritacco , A. Rizzieri , M. Ruiz-Granda , G. Savini , D. Scott , G. Signorelli , S. L. Stever , N. Stutzer , R. M. Sullivan , A. Tartari , K. Tassis , L. Terenzi , K. L. Thompson , P. Vielva , I. K. Wehus , Y. Zhou

In warm inflation (WI), the persistent thermal bath that is sustained by dissipative interactions with the inflaton field produces a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper we study the production and evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Gabriele Montefalcone , Barmak Shams Es Haghi , Tao Xu , Katherine Freese

In this paper, we investigate the production of gravitational waves during the preheating era. To achieve this purpose, we consider Gauss-Bonnet inflation model with Power{\textendash}law potential, $V(\phi)= V_0 \phi^n$, and monomial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Brahim Asfour , Yahya Ladghami , Taoufik Ouali

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

We study gravitational waves generated by the cosmological magnetic fields induced via bubble collisions during the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions. The magnetic field generation mechanisms considered here are based on the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tina Kahniashvili , Leonard Kisslinger , Trevor Stevens

We show that a detectable tensor-to-scalar ratio $(r\ge 10^{-3})$ on the CMB scale can be generated even during extremely low energy inflation which saturates the BBN bound $\rho_{\rm inf}\approx (30 {\rm MeV})^4$. The source of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-01 Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Namba , Yuichiro Tada

A violation of the null energy condition (NEC) during inflation in a single-field inflation model will naturally enhance the amplitude of the parity violation effect (defined by $\Delta\chi$) of inflationary primordial gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-14 Yong Cai

Motivated by the recent release of new results from five different pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments claiming to have found compelling evidence for primordial gravitational waves (GW) at nano-Hz frequencies, we consider the prospects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Debasish Borah , Suruj Jyoti Das , Rome Samanta