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Gravitational wave production from the decay of the standard model Higgs field after inflation

Feb 9, 2016

18 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 93 (2016) 10, 103521

Published: May 19, 2016

e-Print:

1602.03085 [astro-ph.CO]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.93.103521

Report number:

IFT-UAM-CSIC-16-012,
CERN-TH-2016-031

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Abstract: (APS)

During or towards the end of inflation, the Standard Model (SM) Higgs forms a condensate with a large amplitude. Following inflation, the condensate oscillates, decaying nonperturbatively into the rest of the SM species. The resulting out-of-equilibrium dynamics converts a fraction of the energy available into gravitational waves (GWs). We study this process using classical lattice simulations in an expanding box, following the energetically dominant electroweak gauge bosons W± and Z. We characterize the GW spectrum as a function of the running couplings, Higgs initial amplitude, and postinflationary expansion rate. As long as the SM is decoupled from the inflationary sector, the generation of this background is universally expected, independently of the nature of inflation. Our study demonstrates the efficiency of GW emission by gauge fields undergoing parametric resonance. The initial energy of the Higgs condensate represents, however, only a tiny fraction of the inflationary energy. Consequently, the resulting background is highly suppressed, with an amplitude h2ΩGW(o)≲10-29 today. The amplitude can be boosted to h2ΩGW(o)≲10-16, if following inflation the universe undergoes a kination-domination stage; however, the background is shifted in this case to high frequencies fp≲1011 Hz. In all cases the signal is out of the range of current or planned GW detectors. This background will therefore remain, most likely, as a curiosity of the SM.

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16 pages, 6 figures. Minor changes to match version published in PRD

resonance: parametric
frequency: high
coupling constant: energy dependence
inflation
background
condensation
gravitational radiation
gravitational radiation: emission
electroweak interaction
gauge field theory

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