Cosmological gravitational particle production and its implications for cosmological relics

EW Kolb, AJ Long - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Cosmological gravitational particle production (CGPP) is the creation of particles in an
expanding universe due solely to their gravitational interaction. These particles can play an …

Inflation dynamics and reheating

BA Bassett, S Tsujikawa, D Wands - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2006 - APS
The theory of inflation with single and multiple fields is reviewed paying particular attention
to the dynamics of adiabatic and entropy/isocurvature perturbations which provide the …

New approach to the evolution of cosmological perturbations on large scales

D Wands, KA Malik, DH Lyth, AR Liddle - Physical Review D, 2000 - APS
We discuss the evolution of linear perturbations about a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker
background metric, using only the local conservation of energy momentum. We show that on …

Adiabatic and entropy perturbations from inflation

C Gordon, D Wands, BA Bassett, R Maartens - Physical Review D, 2000 - APS
We study adiabatic (curvature) and entropy (isocurvature) perturbations produced during a
period of cosmological inflation that is driven by multiple scalar fields with an arbitrary …

Universal infrared scaling of gravitational wave background spectra

RG Cai, S Pi, M Sasaki - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We study the general infrared behavior of the power spectrum of a stochastic gravitational
wave background produced by stress tensor in the form bilinear in certain dynamical …

Constraining axion inflation with gravitational waves from preheating

P Adshead, JT Giblin Jr, M Pieroni, ZJ Weiner - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We study gravitational wave production from gauge preheating in a variety of inflationary
models, detailing its dependence on both the energy scale and the shape of the potential …

Log-dependent slope of scalar induced gravitational waves in the infrared regions

C Yuan, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We analytically calculate the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) and find a log-
dependent slope of SIGW in the infrared regions (f< fc), namely n GW (f)= 3-2/ln (fc/f), and n …

Stochastic gravitational wave production after inflation

R Easther, EA Lim - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In many models of inflation, the period of accelerated expansion ends with preheating, a
highly non-thermal phase of evolution during which the inflaton pumps energy into a specific …

Gravitational wave production at the end of inflation

R Easther, JT Giblin Jr, EA Lim - Physical Review Letters, 2007 - APS
We consider gravitational wave production due to parametric resonance at the end of
inflation, or “preheating.” This leads to large inhomogeneities that source a stochastic …

Gauge-preheating and the end of axion inflation

P Adshead, JT Giblin Jr, TR Scully… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the onset of the reheating epoch at the end of axion-driven inflation where the
axion is coupled to an Abelian, U (1), gauge field via a Chern-Simons interaction term. We …