Using gravitational waves to see the first second of the Universe

R Roshan, G White - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2025 - APS
Gravitational waves are a unique probe of the early Universe, as the Universe is transparent
to gravitational radiation right back to the end of inflation. This review summarizes detection …

Oscillon formation during inflationary preheating with general relativity

JC Aurrekoetxea, K Clough, F Muia - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the nonperturbative evolution of inflationary fluctuations during preheating using
fully nonlinear general-relativistic field-theory simulations. We choose a single-field …

Gravitational wave probe of Planck-scale physics after inflation

WY Hu, K Nakayama, V Takhistov, Y Tang - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
Particle decays are always accompanied by the emission of graviton quanta of gravity
through bremsstrahlung processes. However, the corresponding branching ratio is …

Gravitational wave production from preheating with trilinear interactions

C Cosme, DG Figueroa, N Loayza - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the production of gravitational waves (GWs) during preheating with
monomial/polynomial inflationary potentials, considering a trilinear coupling ϕχ 2 between a …

Present and future of osmo attice

DG Figueroa, A Florio, F Torrenti - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss the present state and planned updates of CosmoLattice, a cutting-edge code for
lattice simulations of non-linear dynamics of scalar-gauge field theories in an expanding …

Unveiling the nonlinear dynamics of a rolling axion during inflation

A Caravano, M Peloso - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
A spectator axion-gauge sector, minimally coupled to the inflaton, with the axion
experiencing a momentary stage of fast roll during cosmological inflation, can generate …

Weyl fermion creation by cosmological gravitational wave background at 1-loop

A Maleknejad, J Kopp - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025 - Springer
A bstract Weyl fermions of spin\(\frac {1}{2}\) minimally coupled to Einstein's gravity in 4
dimensions cannot be produced purely gravitationally in an expanding Universe at tree …

Inflationary Gravitational Waves as a probe of the unknown post-inflationary primordial Universe

AK Soman, SS Mishra, M Shafi, S Basak - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.07956, 2024 - arxiv.org
One of the key predictions of the standard inflationary paradigm is the quantum mechanical
generation of the transverse and traceless tensor fluctuations due to the rapid accelerated …

Gravitational Wave-Induced Freeze-In of Fermionic Dark Matter

A Maleknejad, J Kopp - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.09723, 2024 - arxiv.org
The minimal coupling of massless fermions to gravity does not allow for their gravitational
production solely based on the expansion of the Universe. We argue that this changes in …

Characterizing the post-inflationary reheating history. Part II. Multiple interacting daughter fields

S Antusch, K Marschall, F Torrenti - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We characterize the post-inflationary dynamics of an inflaton ϕ coupled to multiple
interacting daughter fields X n (n= 1,... N d) through quadratic-quadratic interactions gn 2 ϕ 2 …