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Exploring the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves

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This work investigates gravitational wave production in the early universe and identifies potentially observable features, thereby paving the way for future gravitational wave experiments. It focuses on gravitational wave production in two scenarios: inflation in a model inspired by loop quantum gravity, and preheating at the end of inflation. In the first part, it is demonstrated that gravitational waves' spectrum differs from the result obtained using ordinary general relativity, with potentially observable consequences that could yield insights into quantum gravity. In the second part, it is shown that the cosmic gravitational wave background is anisotropic at a level that could be detected by future experiments. Gravitational waves promise to be an rich source of information on the early universe. To them, the universe has been transparent from its earliest moments, so they can give us an unobstructed view of the Big Bang and a means to probe the fundamental laws of nature at very high energies.

List of contents

Introduction.- Chiral Tensor Power Spectrum from Quantum Gravity.- Anisotropic Gravitational Wave Background from Massless Pre-heating.- Concluding Remarks.- Appendix.

Summary

This work investigates gravitational wave production in the early universe and identifies potentially observable features, thereby paving the way for future gravitational wave experiments. It focuses on gravitational wave production in two scenarios: inflation in a model inspired by loop quantum gravity, and preheating at the end of inflation. In the first part, it is demonstrated that gravitational waves’ spectrum differs from the result obtained using ordinary general relativity, with potentially observable consequences that could yield insights into quantum gravity. In the second part, it is shown that the cosmic gravitational wave background is anisotropic at a level that could be detected by future experiments. Gravitational waves promise to be an rich source of information on the early universe. To them, the universe has been transparent from its earliest moments, so they can give us an unobstructed view of the Big Bang and a means to probe the fundamental laws of nature at very high energies.

Product details

Authors Laura Bethke, Laura Bianca Bethke
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2015
 
EAN 9783319174488
ISBN 978-3-31-917448-8
No. of pages 139
Dimensions 163 mm x 13 mm x 243 mm
Weight 350 g
Illustrations XIII, 139 p. 16 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Series Springer Theses
Springer Theses
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Education
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy

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