期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/054
关键词
cosmology of theories beyond the SM; gravitational wave detectors; physics of the early universe; primordial gravitational waves (theory)
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy -EXC 2121 Quantum Universe [390833306]
- DFG through SFB 1258
- ORIGINS cluster of excellence
Stochastic gravitational waves are produced in the thermal plasma of the early universe, with energy density scaling according to the maximum temperature and effective number of entropy degrees of freedom. Researchers have made state-of-the-art predictions for this Cosmic Gravitational Microwave Background (CGMB) and conducted calculations for various models, including both minimal and non-minimal extensions of the Standard Model. Discussions on current upper limits and prospects for detecting the CGMB in laboratory experiments were also presented.
There is a guaranteed background of stochastic gravitational waves produced in the thermal plasma in the early universe. Its energy density per logarithmic frequency interval scales with the maximum temperature T-max which the primordial plasma attained at the beginning of the standard hot big bang era. It peaks in the microwave range, at around 80 GHz [106.75/g(*s) (T-max)](1/3), where g(*s)(T-max) is the effective number of entropy degrees of freedom in the primordial plasma at T-max. We present a state-of-the-art prediction of this Cosmic Gravitational Microwave Background (CGMB) for general models, and carry out calculations for the case of the Standard Model (SM) as well as for several of its extensions. On the side of minimal extensions we consider the Neutrino Minimal SM (nu MSM) and the SM-Axion-Seesaw-Higgs portal inflation model (SMASH), which provide a complete and consistent cosmological history including inflation. As an example of a non-minimal extension of the SM we consider the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Furthermore, we discuss the current upper limits and the prospects to detect the CGMB in laboratory experiments and thus measure the maximum temperature and the effective number of degrees of freedom at the beginning of the hot big bang.
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