Interferometer constraints on the inflationary field content

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/031zbMATH Open1490.83077arXiv1910.12921OpenAlexW2982371576MaRDI QIDQ5068422FDOQ5068422

Authors: Laura Iacconi, Matteo Fasiello, Hooshyar Assadullahi, Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni, David Wands 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: With an energy scale that can be as high as $10^{14},mGeV$, inflation may provide a unique probe of high-energy physics. Both scalar and tensor fluctuations generated during this early accelerated expansion contain crucial information about the particle content of the primordial universe. The advent of ground- and space-based interferometers enables us to probe primordial physics at length-scales much smaller than those corresponding to current CMB constraints. One key prediction of single-field slow-roll inflation is a red-tilted gravitational wave spectrum, currently inaccessible at interferometer scales. Interferometers probe directly inflationary physics that deviates from the minimal scenario and in particular additional particle content with sizeable couplings to the inflaton field. We adopt here an effective description for such fields and focus on the case of extra spin-2 fields. We find that a time-dependent sound speed for the helicity-2 modes can generate primordial gravitational waves with a blue-tilted spectrum, potentially detectable at interferometer scales.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12921

zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmological perturbation theoryprimordial gravitational waves (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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