Primordial-tensor-induced stochastic gravitational waves

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2023.138236arXiv2302.14080OpenAlexW4387398087MaRDI QIDQ6186516FDOQ6186516

Authors: M. A. Gorji, Misao Sasaki 

Publication date: 2 February 2024

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Cosmological stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) induced by a spectator field are usually expected to have an amplitude very small compared with those generated by the curvature perturbation, or equivalently by a field dominating the universe. On the contrary to this expectation, we show that a spectator field that provides a tensor perturbation, on top of the metric tensor perturbation, can generate a significant amount of GWs. The amplitude and frequency of the generated GWs may lie within the sensitivity range of future GW detectors. In particular, if the sound velocities of the two tensor perturbations coincide, the induced GW amplitude may become very large due to resonance by forced oscillation, even in the limit of small coupling between them. A distinct feature of this scenario is that, since tensor modes can hardly lead to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs), we expect no presence of PBHs, in contrast to the usual scalar-induced case, in which the detection of the induced GWs implies the existence of PBHs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14080

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX) Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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