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In this work, we systematically study gravitational wave (GW) production during both the inflationary and post-inflationary epochs. While inflationary GWs can be readily derived from tensor perturbations during inflation, post-inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Xun-Jie Xu , Yong Xu , Qiqin Yin , Junyu Zhu

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 reheating of the universe after hybrid inflation proceeds through the nucleation and subsequent collision of large concentrations of energy density in the form of bubble-like structures moving at relativistic speeds. This generates a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-29 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Daniel G. Figueroa

A pseudoscalar inflaton $\varphi$, coupled to the topological charge density $F\tilde{F}$ of a non-Abelian sector, can decay to gauge bosons ($\varphi\to g g $), which may thermalize rapidly. The friction felt by $\varphi$ is then increased…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-16 P. Klose , M. Laine , S. Procacci

The gravitational wave equations form a parametric resonance system during oscillatory reheating after inflation, when cast in terms of the electric and magnetic parts of the Weyl tensor. This is in direct analogy with preheating. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Bruce A. Bassett

In this paper, we investigate chiral gravitational wave (GW) signals generated from inflation to reheating, driven by a parity-violating (PV) term coupled to the inflaton. During inflation, the PV term reduces the sound horizon for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Chengjie Fu , Chao Chen , Yi Wang

Assuming that inflation is succeeded by a phase of matter domination, which corresponds to a low temperature of reheating $T_r<10^9\rm{GeV}$, we evaluate the spectra of gravitational waves induced in the post-inflationary universe. We work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Laila Alabidi , Kazunori Kohri , Misao Sasaki , Yuuiti Sendouda

We study primordial gravitational waves (GWs) generated from first-order phase transitions (PTs) during cosmic reheating. Using a minimal particle physics model, and a general parametrization of the inflaton energy density and the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Amitayus Banik , Nicolás Bernal , Fazlollah Hajkarim

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

Parametric resonance in a single-field inflationary model with a periodic structure on the potential gives rise to curvature perturbations with large amplitudes on small scales, which could result in observable primordial black holes (PBHs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-02 Zhi-Zhang Peng , Chengjie Fu , Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

We study the evolution of Gravitational Waves (GWs) during and after inflation as well as the resulting observational consequences in a Lorentz-violating massive gravity theory with one scalar (inflaton) and two tensor degrees of freedom.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-23 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Chunshan Lin , Misao Sasaki , Shinji Tsujikawa

Several mechanisms exist for generating a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the period following inflation. These mechanisms are generally classical in nature, with the gravitational waves being produced from inhomogeneities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Larry R. Price , Xavier Siemens

During or towards the end of inflation, the Standard Model (SM) Higgs forms a condensate with a large amplitude. Following inflation, the condensate oscillates, decaying non-perturbatively into the rest of the SM species. The resulting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Daniel G. Figueroa , Juan García-Bellido , Francisco Torrentí

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 calculate the production of the gravitational waves from a double inflation model with lattice simulations. Between the two inflationary stages, gravitational waves with a characteristic frequency are produced by fluctuations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-27 Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Naoyuki Takeda

We study the production of gravitinos during the preheating era after inflation by means of the non-perturbative Bogolyubov technique. Considering only the helicity $\pm 3/2$ states, the problem is reduced to the simpler Dirac fermions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio L. Maroto

We investigate the anisotropies in the gravitational wave (GW) background produced at preheating after inflation. Using lattice field theory simulations of a massless preheating model, we show that the GW amplitude depends sensitively on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Laura Bethke , Daniel G. Figueroa , Arttu Rajantie

We investigate the reach of future gravitational wave (GW) detectors in probing inflaton couplings with visible sector particles that can either be bosonic or fermionic in nature. Assuming reheating takes place through perturbative quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Basabendu Barman , Anish Ghoshal , Bohdan Grzadkowski , Anna Socha

Gravitational waves (GWs) are produced by colliding particles through the gravitational analogue of electromagnetic bremsstrahlung. We calculate the contribution of free-free emission in the radiation-dominated Universe to the stochastic GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Betty X. Hu , Abraham Loeb

We present analytic results for the gravitational wave power spectrum induced in models where the inflaton is coupled to a fermionic pseudocurrent. We show that although such a coupling creates helically polarized fermions, the polarized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Peter Adshead , Lauren Pearce , Marco Peloso , Michael A. Roberts , Lorenzo Sorbo