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We explore the production of gravitational waves (GW) resulting from a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a non-minimally coupled `Dark Higgs Inflation' model. Utilizing a dark sector scalar field as the inflaton, we demonstrate how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Jörn Kersten , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park , Juhoon Son , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

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 D-term inflation within the framework of supergravity, employing the minimal K\"{a}hler potential. Following previous studies that revealed that this model can overcome the $\eta$-problem found in F-term…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 K. El Bourakadi , G. Otalora , A. Burton-Villalobos , H. Chakir , M. Ferricha-Alami , M. Bennai

We investigate the production of gravitinos in a cosmological background. Gravitinos can be produced during preheating after inflation due to a combined effect of interactions with an oscillating inflaton field and absence of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Renata Kallosh , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Antoine Van Proeyen

We study a new class of inflation model parametrized by the Hubble radius, such that $aH\propto \exp(-k\phi^n)$. These potentials are plateau-like, and reduce to the power-law potentials in the simplest case $n=2$. We investigate the range…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-20 Siri Chongchitnan

Assuming that inflation is followed by a phase where the energy density of the Universe is dominated by a component with a general equation of state, we evaluate the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves induced in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 Nicolás Bernal , Fazlollah Hajkarim

Previous work on the gravitational-wave background generated in a two-scalar-field cosmological model, in which warm inflation and the dark sector are unified within a single framework, has shown that the resulting spectrum could be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Orlando Luongo , Tommaso Mengoni , Paulo M. Sá

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

We investigate the properties of a stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in the regime of extreme supercooling. We study a scenario whereby the percolation temperature that signifies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-09 Archil Kobakhidze , Cyril Lagger , Adrian Manning , Jason Yue

We describe the challenges and pathways when probing inflaton as dark matter with the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) signal generated during the (p)reheating. Such scenarios are of utmost interest when no other interaction between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-24 Anish Ghoshal , Pankaj Saha

The process of reheating the universe after hybrid inflation is extremely violent. It proceeds through the nucleation and subsequent collision of large concentrations of energy density in bubble-like structures, which generate a significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Daniel G. Figueroa

Inflaton-vector interactions of the type $\phi F\tilde{F}$ have provided interesting phenomenology to tackle some of current problems in cosmology, namely the vectors could constitute the dark matter component. It could also lead to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-31 Mar Bastero-Gil , António Torres Manso

Recent study [1] has suggested that warm inflation may be realized with a minimal extension of the Standard Model by a single scalar inflaton field with an axion-like coupling to gluons. Motivated by this framework, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Quan Chen , Siyu Jiang , Dayun Qiu , Peilin Chen , Fa Peng Huang

We present the spectrum of primordial gravitational wave (GW) expected from the presence of primordial black holes (PBH) and inflaton in the early Universe. For the first time, we combine the waves produced by the PBH decay, with their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Mathieu Gross , Md Riajul Haque , Yann Mambrini

In this paper, we investigate the Axion-like Particle inflation by applying the multi-nature inflation model, where the end of inflation is achieved through the phase transition (PT). The events of PT should not be less than $200$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Wei Cheng , Tao Qian , Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Rui-Yu Zhou

We study particle production at the preheating era in inflation models with nonminimal coupling $\xi \phi^2R$ and quartic potential $\lambda \phi^4/4$ for several cases: real scalar inflaton, complex scalar inflaton and Abelian Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

The behaviour of gravitational waves in the anomaly-induced inflationary phase is studied. The metric perturbations exhibit a stable behaviour, with a very moderate growth in the amplitude of the waves. The spectral indice is computed,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. Fabris , A. M. Pelinson , I. L. Shapiro , F. I. Takakura

We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

At the end of inflation, the coherent oscillations of the inflaton field may resonantly amplify the long wavelength modes of both bosons and fermions coupled to it. We study the resonant production of both kinds of particles during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

Axion inflation is a well-motivated model of cosmic inflation with a rich phenomenology. The abundant production of gauge fields during axion inflation notably sources a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background signal, which nourishes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol