%0 Electronic Article
%A Ringwald, Andreas
%A Tamarit, Carlos
%T Revealing the Cosmic History with Gravitational Waves
%N DESY-22-037
%M PUBDB-2022-01343
%M DESY-22-037
%M arXiv:2203.00621
%M TUM-HEP-1389-22
%D 2022
%Z 7 pages, 5 figures  Physical Review Letters
%X The characteristics of the cosmic microwave background provide circumstantial evidence that the hot radiation-dominated epoch in the early universe was preceded by a period of inflationary expansion. Here, we show how a measurement of the stochastic gravitational wave background can reveal the cosmic history and the physical conditions during inflation, subsequent pre- and reheating, and the beginning of the hot big bang era. This is exemplified with a particularly well-motivated and predictive minimal extension of the Standard Model which is known to provide a complete model for particle physics - up to the Planck scale, and for cosmology - back to inflation.
%K gravitational radiation, background (INSPIRE)
%K gravitational radiation, stochastic (INSPIRE)
%K scale, Planck (INSPIRE)
%K inflation (INSPIRE)
%K history (INSPIRE)
%K cosmic background radiation (INSPIRE)
%K big bang (INSPIRE)
%K reheating (INSPIRE)
%K cosmological model (INSPIRE)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)25
%9 Preprint
%R 10.3204/PUBDB-2022-01343
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/475433