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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

We investigate density fluctuations and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) arising from the production of long-lived solitons and oscillons, which can dominate the early Universe and drive reheating prior to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

We study gravitational wave production during Abelian gauge-field preheating following inflation. We consider both scalar and pseudoscalar inflaton models coupled directly to Abelian gauge fields via either a dilatonic coupling to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin , Zachary J. Weiner

We calculate the gravitational waves (GW) spectrum produced in various Early Universe scenarios from gauge field sources, thus generalizing earlier inflationary calculations to bouncing cosmologies. We consider generic couplings between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ido Ben-Dayan

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) provides a unique opportunity to probe the early Universe, potentially encoding information about the primordial curvature power spectrum and the energy scale of reheating. Recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Lele Fan , Jie Zheng , Fengge Zhang , Zhi-Qiang You

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) modified gravity during the radiation dominated era. The SIGWs are circularly polarized, which provide us a tool to test the possible parity violation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 Fengge Zhang , Jia-Xi Feng , Xian Gao

Inspired by the chromo-natural inflation model of Adshead&Wyman, we reshape its scalar content to relax the tension with current observational bounds. Besides an inflaton, the setup includes a spectator sector in which an axion and SU(2)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Tomohiro Fujita

We point out that there is a high-frequency tail of the stochastic inflationary gravitational wave background that scales as $f^{-1/2}$ with frequency $f$. This contribution comes from the graviton vacuum fluctuation amplified by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kazunori Nakayama

We study the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) from a chiral scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The parity-violating (PV) Lagrangian contains the Chern-Simons (CS) term and PV scalar-tensor terms, which are built of the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

We propose a novel mechanism for gravitational wave (GW) production sourced by spectator scalar fields during inflation. These fields, while not driving cosmic expansion, generate blue-tilted isocurvature fluctuations that naturally satisfy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Sarunas Verner

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

We consider gravitational wave (GW) production during preheating in hybrid inflation models where an axion-like waterfall field couples to Abelian gauge fields. Based on a linear analysis, we find that the GW signal from such models can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 Yanou Cui , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of such new physics. In particular, they could point to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Haipeng An , Boye Su , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang , Chen Yang

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) spectrum resulting from graviton bremsstrahlung during inflationary reheating. We focus on an inflaton $\phi$ oscillating around a generic monomial potential $V(\phi) \propto \phi^n$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-10 Nicolás Bernal , Simon Cléry , Yann Mambrini , Yong Xu

We forecast high-frequency gravitational wave (GW) from preheating hosting gravitational dark matter (GDM) as the indirect probe of such GDM. We use proper lattice simulations to handle resonance, and to solve GW equation of motion with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 Ruopeng Zhang , Sibo Zheng

The expansion history and content of the Universe between the end of inflation and the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is mostly unknown. In this paper, we study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by matter isocurvature fluctuations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Guillem Domènech , Jan Tränkle

We discuss the production of primordial gravitational waves (GW) from radiative inflaton decay during the period of reheating, assuming perturbative decay of the inflaton either into a pair of bosons or fermions, leading to successful…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Basabendu Barman , Nicolás Bernal , Yong Xu , Óscar Zapata

In this paper, we investigate scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) generated in the post-inflationary universe to infer new limits on warm inflation. We specifically examine the evolution of primordial GWs by scalar perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Rocco D'Agostino , Matteo Califano

We investigate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) in the Chern-Simons (CS) gravity with a dynamical scalar field during slow roll inflation. Due to the parity violation in the CS term, the SIGWs are generally polarized, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

The energy spectrum of gravitational waves (GWs), which depicts the energy of GWs per unit volume of space per logarithmic frequency interval normalized to the critical density of the Universe, is a widely used way for quantifying the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Rong-Gen Cai , Xing-Yu Yang , Long Zhao