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Bumpy inflation from explosive particle production
Kaloian D. Lozanov, Xavier Pritchard, Misao Sasaki
We present a first-principles derivation of an effective inflaton potential with a bumpy feature. We consider the coupling of a spectator field χto the inflaton ϕsuch that χis mass…
Constraining the inflaton potential with gravitational waves from oscillons
Kaloian D. Lozanov, Misao Sasaki, Jan Tränkle
Under certain conditions, the oscillating inflaton condensate filling the Universe after inflation can fragment and form so-called oscillons. These long-lived soliton-like field co…
Dark matter from inflationary quantum fluctuations
Mohammad Ali Gorji, Misao Sasaki, Teruaki Suyama
We explore a scenario in which dark matter is a massive bosonic field, arising solely from quantum fluctuations generated during inflation. In this framework, dark matter exhibits…
One-loop thermal radiation exchange in gravitational wave power spectrum
Atsuhisa Ota, Misao Sasaki, Yi Wang
The radiation-dominated universe is a key ingredient of the standard Big Bang cosmology. Radiation comprises numerous quantum elementary particles, and the macroscopic behavior of…
Axion-like Universal Gravitational Wave Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data
Kaloian D. Lozanov, Shi Pi, Misao Sasaki +2
Formation of cosmological solitons is generically accompanied by production of gravitational waves (GWs), with a universal GW background expected at frequency scales below that of…
Universal Gravitational Waves from Interacting and Clustered Solitons
Kaloian D. Lozanov, Misao Sasaki, Volodymyr Takhistov
Causal soliton formation (e.g. oscillons, Q-balls) in the primordial Universe is expected to give rise to a universal gravitational wave (GW) background, at frequencies smaller tha…
Extra-tensor-induced origin for the PTA signal: No primordial black hole production
Mohammad Ali Gorji, Misao Sasaki, Teruaki Suyama
Recently, pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations announced evidence for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. The origin of the PTA signal can be astrophysi…
Highly asymmetric probability distribution from a finite-width upward step during inflation
Ryodai Kawaguchi, Tomohiro Fujita, Misao Sasaki
We study a single-field inflation model in which the inflaton potential has an upward step between two slow-roll regimes by taking into account the finite width of the step. We cal…
Halo Formation from Yukawa Forces in the Very Early Universe
Guillem Domènech, Derek Inman, Alexander Kusenko +1
If long-range attractive forces exist and are stronger than gravity then cosmic halo formation can begin in the radiation-dominated era. We study a simple realization of this effec…
Universal Gravitational Wave Signatures of Cosmological Solitons
Kaloian D. Lozanov, Misao Sasaki, Volodymyr Takhistov
Cosmological solitonic objects such as monopoles, cosmic strings, domain walls, oscillons and Q-balls often appear in theories of the early Universe. We demonstrate that such scena…
Primordial Non-Gaussianity
P. Daniel Meerburg, Daniel Green, Muntazir Abidi +175
Our current understanding of the Universe is established through the pristine measurements of structure in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the distribution and shapes of…
Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of the Physics of the Primordial Universe and the Astrophysics of the Low Redshift Universe
E. Komatsu, N. Afshordi, N. Bartolo +58
A new and powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe has emerged and been actively developed over the last decade. In the coming decade, non-Gaussiani…