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Gravitational waves (GWs) can alter the neutrino propagation distance and thus affect neutrino oscillations. This can result in a complete disappearance of the oscillatory behavior that competes with other sources of neutrino decoherence.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Dominik Hellmann , Sara Krieg , Heinrich Päs , Mustafa Tabet

We explore the possibility of parity-violating, nonminimally coupled 2-form field theories that retain the same dynamical degrees of freedom as a massive 2-form and thus are ghost-free. Starting from the most general kinetic terms and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Yuki Horii , Tomoaki Murata , Tsutomu Kobayashi

Violation of parity symmetry in the gravitational sector, which manifests into unequal left and right circular polarization states of primordial gravitational waves, represents a way to test high-energy modifications to general relativity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-08 Nicola Bartolo , Luca Caloni , Giorgio Orlando , Angelo Ricciardone

Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide sensitive tests of parity and Lorentz symmetries of gravity. Any violation of these fundamental symmetries induces possible deviations in the GW propagations. Through a systematic parametrization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Jian-Ming Yan , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Cheng Gong , Anzhong Wang

Given the recent direct measurement of gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO-VIRGO collab- oration, the coupling between electromagnetic fields and gravity have a special relevance since it opens new perspectives for future GW detectors and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Francisco Cabral , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We investigate the viability of inflation with a spectator sector comprised of non-Abelian gauge fields coupled through a higher order operator. We dub this model "spectator Gauge-flation". We study the predictions for the amplitude and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-22 Oksana Iarygina , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide an excellent opportunity to test the gravity in the strong gravitational fields. In this article, we calculate the waveform of GWs, produced by the coalescence of compact binaries, in an extension of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Jin Qiao , Tao Zhu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

A stochastic gravitational wave background is expected to emerge from the superposition of numerous gravitational wave sources of both astrophysical and cosmological origin. A number of cosmological models can have a parity violation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Katarina Martinovic , Charles Badger , Mairi Sakellariadou , Vuk Mandic

Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves (SIGWs), second-order tensor modes sourced by first-order scalar fluctuations in General Relativity (GR), are expected to contribute to the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) potentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Anjali Abirami Kugarajh , Marisol Traforetti , Andrea Maselli , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

Cosmological vector fields are central to many early-Universe phenomena, including inflationary dynamics, primordial magnetogenesis, and dark-matter scenarios. However, constructing models able to generate cosmological magnetic fields while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 H. V. Ragavendra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , L. Sriramkumar

We investigate the parity-violating effects in primordial gravitational waves (GWs) due to null energy condition (NEC) violation in two very early universe scenarios: bounce-inflation and intermediate NEC violation during inflation. In both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Zi-Wei Jiang , Yong Cai , Fei Wang , Yun-Song Piao

Parity violation is a powerful observable to distinguish a cosmological background of Gravitational Waves (GWs) from an astrophysical one. Planar single GW interferometers, both on ground and in space, are unable to measure the net circular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-02 Giorgio Orlando , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone

As an extension of our previous work [J.Qiao, T.Zhu, W.Zhao & A.Wang, arXiv:1909.03815], in this article, we calculate the effects of parity violation on gravitational-wave (GW) waveforms during their propagation in the most general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-06 Wen Zhao , Tao Zhu , Jin Qiao , Anzhong Wang

We show, through an explicit calculation of the relevant Green's functions, that the transverse-traceless (TT) portion of the gravitational perturbations of Minkowski spacetime and of spatially flat cosmologies with a constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-10 Yi-Zen Chu , Yen-Wei Liu

We employ multiple-scale analysis to systematically derive analytical approximations describing the cosmological propagation of gravitational waves beyond general relativity, in a framework with two interacting spin-2 fields with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-25 Marco de Cesare , Mairi Sakellariadou , Benjamin Sutton

The examination of parity symmetry in gravitational interactions has drawn increasing attention. Although Einstein's General Relativity is parity-conserved, numerous theories of parity-violating (PV) gravity in different frameworks have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Jin Qiao , Zhao Li , Tao Zhu , Ran Ji , Guoliang Li , Wen Zhao

Similar to axions, gravitational waves (GW) can induce oscillating electromagnetic fields inside electromagnetic cavities. We explore their experimental sensitivity to monochromatic and non-monochromatic GW signals, using the total…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-24 Sebastian Schenk , Kristof Schmieden , Pedro Schwaller

In general relativity (GR), gravitational waves (GWs) propagate the well-known plus and cross polarization modes which are the signature of a massless spin-2 field. However, diffraction of GWs caused by intervening objects along the line of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Charles Dalang , Giulia Cusin , Macarena Lagos

The gravitational waves (GW) background generated in a double inflationary model, with two scalar fields mutually interacting through gravity only, and its relative contribution $T/S$ to large-angle temperature fluctuations of the relic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David Polarski , Alexei A. Starobinsky

In the framework of Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs), first produced by remote compact astrophysical sources and then propagating through the flat homogeneous and isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Jared Fier , Henry Han , Bowen Li , Kai Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang