Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: Probing inflation with gravitational waves

Bartolo, Nicola; Caprini, Chiara; Domcke, Valerie; Figueroa, Daniel G.; Garcia-Bellido, Juan; Guzzetti, Maria Chiara; Liguori, Michele; Matarrese, Sabino; Peloso, Marco; Petiteau, Antoine

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/12/026

Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: Probing inflation with gravitational waves

Nicola Bartolo
(
- Padua U. and
- INFN, Padua and
- Padua Observ.
)
,
Chiara Caprini
(
- APC, Paris
)
,
Valerie Domcke
(
- APC, Paris
)
,
Daniel G. Figueroa
(
- CERN
)
,
Juan Garcia-Bellido
(
- Madrid, IFT
)

Oct 20, 2016

63 pages

Published in:

JCAP 12 (2016) 026

Published: Dec 14, 2016

e-Print:

1610.06481 [astro-ph.CO]

DOI:

10.1088/1475-7516/2016/12/026

Report number:

ACFI-T16-19,
UMN-TH-3608-16,
CERN-TH-2016-222,
KCL-PH-TH-2016-58,
IFT-UAM-CSIC-16-104

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We investigate the potential for the LISA space-based interferometer to detect the stochastic gravitational wave background produced from different mechanisms during inflation. Focusing on well-motivated scenarios, we study the resulting contributions from particle production during inflation, inflationary spectator fields with varying speed of sound, effective field theories of inflation with specific patterns of symmetry breaking and models leading to the formation of primordial black holes. The projected sensitivities of LISA are used in a model-independent way for various detector designs and configurations. We demonstrate that LISA is able to probe these well-motivated inflationary scenarios beyond the irreducible vacuum tensor modes expected from any inflationary background.

Note:

53 pages, 18 figures; v2: minor changes to match published version

inflation: effective field theory
gravitational radiation detector
gravitational radiation detector: satellite
gravitational radiation: background
LISA: sensitivity
gravitational radiation: stochastic
black hole: primordial
detector: design
velocity: acoustic
interferometer

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