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Journal Article | PUBDB-2022-05038 |
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2022
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.063027 doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2022-05038
Report No.: DESY-22-037; TUM-HEP-1389-22; arXiv:2203.00621
Abstract: 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.
Keyword(s): gravitational radiation: background ; gravitational radiation: stochastic ; scale: Planck ; inflation ; history ; cosmic background radiation ; big bang ; reheating ; cosmological model ; space-time: expansion ; preheating ; new physics
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Revealing the Cosmic History with Gravitational Waves
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