High-frequency graviton from inflaton oscillation

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/09/015MaRDI QIDQ5070933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yohei Ema, Ryusuke Jinno, Kazunori Nakayama

Publication date 14 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09972, https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2020-02704%22

zbMATH Keywords

inflationprimordial gravitational waves (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: 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 inflaton coherent oscillation during the reheating stage. It contains information on inflaton properties such as the inflaton mass as well as the thermal history of the early Universe.

Cites work

• Cosmic strings and other topological defects
• Cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves
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• Scalar field couplings to quadratic curvature and decay into gravitons
• Analytic formula for the dynamics around inflation end and implications on primordial gravitational waves
• Curing inflationary degeneracies using reheating predictions and relic gravitational waves
• Quantum decay of scalar and vector boson stars and oscillons into gravitons

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