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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/033
Keywords
cosmology of theories beyond the SM; gravity waves / theory; CMBR theory
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- CNPq [305456/2006-7]
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We study Gravitational Waves (GWs) in the context of Massive Gravity, an extension to General Relativity (GR) where the fluctuations of the metric have a nonzero mass, and specifically investigate the effect of the tensor modes on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. We first study the time evolution of the tensor modes in Massive Gravity and show that there is a graviton mass limit m(l) = 10(-66) g similar to 10(-29) cm(-1), so that for masses m <= m(l) the tensor perturbations in Massive Gravity are indistinguishable from the corresponding ones in GR. Also, we show that short wavelength massive modes behave almost indistinguishably from their massless counterparts. Later on, we show that massive gravitons with masses within the range m = 10(-27) cm(-1) - m - 10(-26) cm(-1) would leave a clear signature on the lower multipoles (l < 30) in the CMB anisotropy power spectrum. Hence, our results indicate that CMB anisotropies measurements might be decisive to show whether the tensor modes are massive or not.
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