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Inflationary Gravitational Waves as a probe of the unknown post-inflationary primordial Universe
Athul K. Soman, Swagat S. Mishra, Mohammed Shafi, Soumen Basak
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One of the key predictions of the standard inflationary paradigm is the quantum mechanical generation of the transverse and traceless tensor fluctuations due to the rapid accelerated expansion of space, which later constitute a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves (GWs). The amplitude of the (nearly) scale-invariant inflationary tensor power spectrum at large scales provides us with crucial information about the energy scale of inflation in the case of the minimal inflaton coupling to gravity. Furthermore, the spectral energy density, Ω_(_(GW))(f), of the GWs at sufficiently small scales (or, large frequencies f) serves as an important observational probe of post-inflationary primordial dynamics. In fact, the small-scale spectral tilt, n_(_(GW)) = (dlogΩ_(_(GW)))/dlogf, of the spectral energy density of GWs is sensitive to the (unknown) post-inflationary equation of state (EoS), w, of the universe; with a softer EoS (w < 1/3) leading to a red tilt: n_(_(GW)) < 0, while a stiffer EoS (w > 1/3) resulting in a blue tilt: n_(_(GW)) > 0. The post-inflationary dynamics, however, is generically expected to be quite complex, potentially involving a number of distinct phases. Hence, in this work, we discuss the possibility of multiple sharp transitions, namely w₁ →w₂ →w₃ →... →wₙ, in the EoS of the post-inflationary universe and compute the corresponding spectral energy density of the inflationary GWs. We explicitly determine the region of the parameter space { w₁, w₂, w₃, ..., wₙ} which leads to a potentially detectable signal in the upcoming GW detectors, without violating the current constraints.
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