scholarly journals Curing inflationary degeneracies using reheating predictions and relic gravitational waves

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (05) ◽  
pp. 075
Author(s):  
Swagat S. Mishra ◽  
Varun Sahni ◽  
Alexei A. Starobinsky
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basem Ghayour

The generated relic gravitational waves underwent several stages of evolution of the universe such as inflation and reheating. These stages were affected on the shape of spectrum of the waves. As well known, at the end of inflation, the scalar field [Formula: see text] oscillates quickly around some point where potential [Formula: see text] has a minimum. The end of inflation stage played a crucial role on the further evolution stages of the universe because particles were created and collisions of the created particles were responsible for reheating the universe. There is a general range for the frequency of the spectrum [Formula: see text])[Formula: see text]Hz. It is shown that the reheating temperature can affect on the frequency of the spectrum as well. There is constraint on the temperature from cosmological observations based on WMAP-9 and Planck. Therefore, it is interesting to estimate allowed value of frequencies of the spectrum based on general range of reheating temperature like few MeV [Formula: see text] GeV, WMAP-9 and Planck data then compare the spectrum with sensitivity of future detectors such as LISA, BBO and ultimate-DECIGIO. The obtained results of this comparison give us some more chance for detection of the relic gravitational waves.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. SAHOO

The spectra of relic gravitational waves produced as a result of cosmological expansion of the inflationary models are derived in Brans–Dicke (BD) theory of gravity. The time dependence of the very early Hubble parameter and matter energy density are derived from frequency-dependent spectrum of relic gravitational waves. Also it is found that Brans–Dicke scalar field contributes to the energy density of relic gravitons.


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