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We study the possibility that particle production during inflation could source observable gravity waves on scales relevant for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. A crucial constraint on such scenarios arises because particle…

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Primordial magnetic fields (PMF) can create polarization $B$-modes in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) through Faraday rotation (FR), leading to non-trivial 2-point and 4-point correlators of the CMB temperature and polarization. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Amit P. S. Yadav , Levon Pogosian , Tanmay Vachaspati

We propose a novel scenario to generate primordial magnetic fields during inflation induced by an oscillating coupling of the electromagnetic field to the inflaton. This resonant mechanism has two key advantages over previous proposals.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Christian T. Byrnes , Lukas Hollenstein , Rajeev Kumar Jain , Federico R. Urban

We study the evolution of magnetic fields coupled with chiral fermion asymmetry in the framework of chiral magnetohydrodynamics with zero initial total chirality. The initial magnetic field has a turbulent spectrum peaking at a certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-02 Axel Brandenburg , Kohei Kamada , Kyohei Mukaida , Kai Schmitz , Jennifer Schober

Inflationary cosmology proposes that the early Universe undergoes accelerated expansion, driven, in simple scenarios, by a single scalar field, or inflaton. The form of the inflaton potential determines the initial spectra of density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Richard Easther , Benedict Bahr-Kalus , David Parkinson

Recent measurements of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) indicate that the Universe is flat and that large-scale structure grew via gravitational infall from primordial adiabatic perturbations. Both of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew H. Jaffe

A stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves could be detected soon in the polarization of the CMB and/or with laser interferometers. There are at least three GWB coming from inflation: those produced during inflation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-11 Juan Garcia-Bellido

Recently, there are several reports that the cosmic magnetic fields on Mpc scale in void region is larger than $\sim 10^{-15}$G with an uncertainty of a few orders from the current blazar observations. On the other hand, in inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Tomohiro Fujita , Shuichiro Yokoyama

We use the 2015 Planck likelihood in combination with the Bicep2/Keck likelihood (BKP and BK14) to constrain the chirality, $\chi$, of primordial gravitational waves in a scale-invariant scenario. In this framework, the parameter $\chi$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Martina Gerbino , Alessandro Gruppuso , Paolo Natoli , Maresuke Shiraishi , Alessandro Melchiorri

This paper explores the physics of second-order gravitational waves (GWs) induced by scalar-tensor perturbation interactions in the radiation-dominated Universe. We investigate the distinctive signatures of these GWs and their detectability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Pritha Bari , Nicola Bartolo , Guillem Domènech , Sabino Matarrese

We identify a characteristic pattern in the scalar-induced stochastic gravitational wave background from particle production during inflation. If particle production is sufficiently efficient, the scalar power spectrum exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-24 Jacopo Fumagalli , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Lukas T. Witkowski

Phase transitions during inflation can generate a stochastic gravitational-wave background that probes primordial physics. We study the detectability and parameter reconstruction of such a signal with a space-based gravitational-wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Qingyuan Liang , Chen Yang , Haipeng An , Huai-Ke Guo

Cosmic acceleration manifested in the early universe as inflation, generating primordial gravitational waves detectable in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. Cosmic acceleration is occurring again at present as dark energy,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 Tilek Zhumabek , Mikhail Denissenya , Eric V. Linder

We study the inflationary model with a spectator scalar field $\chi$ coupled to both the inflaton and Ricci scalar. The interaction between the $\chi$ field and the gravity, denoted by $\xi R\chi^2$, can trigger the tachyonic instability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-03 Zhe Yu , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

The large-scale magnetic fields arising from the quantum mechanical fluctuations of the hypercharge are investigated when the evolution of the gauge coupling is combined with a sufficiently long inflationary stage. In this framework the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Massimo Giovannini

We propose a new mechanism for magnetic field generation from inflation, by which strong magnetic fields can be generated on cosmological scales. These fields may be observable by cosmic microwave background radition measurements, and may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomislav Prokopec , Ewald Puchwein

We investigate the geometric dynamics of the primordial electric and magnetic fields during the early stages of the universe by extending a recently introduced quantum algebra \cite{BMM,BMAS}. We work on an extended model of gravity that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-02 Daniela Magos , Mauricio Bellini

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave background sourced at second order by a spectator scalar field $\chi$ coupled to the inflaton $\phi$ through a portal interaction $\sigma\phi^2\chi^2$ and with quartic self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Angel Garcia-Vega , Sarunas Verner

Kination denotes an era in the cosmological history corresponding to an equation of state $\omega=+1$ such that the total energy density of the universe redshifts as the sixth inverse power of the scale factor. This arises if the universe…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Yann Gouttenoire , Geraldine Servant , Peera Simakachorn

The B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) provides a unique window into tensor perturbations from inflationary gravitational waves. Survey effects complicate the estimation and description of the power spectrum on the…

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