Revealing the Cosmic History with Gravitational Waves
arXiv:2203.00621 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.106.063027
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 re-heating, 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.
11 pages, 7 figures. v2: extended discussions and figures, accepted at PRD
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