5 papers
Suppression of scalar perturbations due to a heavy axion
Kai-Ge Zhang, Jian-Feng He, Chengjie Fu +1
A fast-rolling axion can transfer its kinetic energy to gauge fields via the Chern-Simons coupling, leading to copious production of gauge quanta during inflation. The amplified ga…
Gravitational Waves from Gauge Quanta Produced during Inflation
Kai-Ge Zhang, Jian-Feng He, Chengjie Fu +1
A fast-rolling axion can transfer its kinetic energy to a gauge field via the Chern-Simons coupling, leading to copious production of gauge quanta, which can act as a source of gra…
The power of SKA to Constrain cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds below the astrophysical foreground noise
Chengjie Fu, Jing Liu
The inspirals of supermaissive black hole binaries provide a convinced gravitational wave background in the nHz band, serving as the fiducial model of the recent gravitational wave…
Strong backreaction of gauge quanta produced during inflation
Jian-Feng He, Kai-Ge Zhang, Chengjie Fu +1
During inflation an axion field coupled to a gauge field through a Chern-Simons term can trigger the production of gauge quanta due to a tachyonic instability. The amplification of…
Constraining inflation with nonminimal derivative coupling with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array third data release
Chang Han, Li-Yang Chen, Zu-Cheng Chen +13
We study an inflation model with nonminimal derivative coupling that features a coupling between the derivative of the inflaton field and the Einstein tensor. This model naturally…