Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/10/057
Keywords
primordial gravitational waves (theory); inflation; particle physics - cosmology connection
Funding
- Research Project of the Spanish MINECO [FPA2015-68048-C3-3-P]
- Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa Program [SEV-2016-0597]
- FPI-Severo Ochoa Ph.D. fellowship [SVP-2013-067697]
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Parametric resonance is among the most efficient phenomena generating gravitational waves (GWs) in the early Universe. The dynamics of parametric resonance, and hence of the GWs, depend exclusively on the resonance parameter q. The latter is determined by the properties of each scenario: the initial amplitude and potential curvature of the oscillating field, and its coupling to other species. Previous works have only studied the GW production for fixed value(s) of q. We present an analytical derivation of the GW amplitude dependence on q, valid for any scenario, which we confront against numerical results. By running lattice simulations in an expanding grid, we study for a wide range of q values, the production of GWs in post-inflationary preheating scenarios driven by parametric resonance. We present simple fits for the final amplitude and position of the local maxima in the GW spectrum. Our parametrization allows to predict the location and amplitude of the GW background today, for an arbitrary q. The GW signal can be rather large, as h(2)Omega GW(f(p)) less than or similar to 10(-11), but it is always peaked at high frequencies f(p) greater than or similar to 10(7) Hz. We also discuss the case of spectator-field scenarios, where the oscillatory field can be e.g. a curvaton, or the Standard Model Higgs.
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