Scalar-induced gravitational waves from inflation with symmetry breaking

arXiv:2607.23646 · astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-07-26 · Read on arXiv

Chong-Bin Chen, Jia-Xi Feng, Fu-Wen Shu, Linjie Song

astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-07-26

Comments: 15 pages, 15 figures, 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Symmetry Breaking — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anisotropy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosmic Microwave Background — 1× in this paper
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reheating — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
• GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
• GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
• GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object
• GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$
• GW190412: Observation of a Binary-Black-Hole Coalescence with Asymmetric Masses
• Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves
• Ability of LIGO and LISA to probe the equation of state of the early Universe
• Gravitational wave constraints on the observable inflation
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• A Cosmological Signature of the SM Higgs Instability: Gravitational Waves
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