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 Participant

Lin, Chunshan

Institution

Yukawa institute for theoretical physics, Kyoto University  - Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku - Kyoto - Kyoto - Japan

Session

AT1

Accepted

Yes

Order

4

Time

15:15 10'

Talk

Oral abstract

Title

Resonant Primordial Gravitational Waves Amplification
Coauthors Chunshan Lin, Misao Sasaki

Abstract

We propose a mechanism to evade the Lyth bound in models of inflation. We minimally extend the conventional single-field inflation model in general relativity (GR) to a theory with non-vanishing graviton mass in the very early universe. The modification primarily affects the tensor perturbation, while the scalar and vector perturbations are the same as the ones in GR with a single scalar field at least at the level of linear perturbation theory. During the reheating stage, the graviton mass oscillates coherently and leads to resonant amplification of the primordial tensor perturbation. After reheating the graviton mass vanishes and we recover GR.

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