May 31, 2021 to June 4, 2021
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Europe/Madrid timezone

Primordial gravitational waves revealed by a spinning axion

Jun 3, 2021, 3:54 PM
6m
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PhD forum talk + poster PhD Forum

Speaker

Peera Simakachorn (Universität Hamburg and DESY)

Description

A fast-spinning axion can dominate the Universe at early times and generates the so-called kination era. The presence of kination imprints a smoking-gun spectral enhancement in the primordial gravitational-wave (GW) background. Current and future-planned GW observatories could constrain particle theories that generate the kination phase. Surprisingly, the viable parameter space allows for a kination era at the TeV scale and generates a peaked spectrum of GW from either cosmic strings or primordial inflation, which lies inside ET and CE windows.

Author

Peera Simakachorn (Universität Hamburg and DESY)

Co-authors

Geraldine Servant (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Dr Yann Gouttenoire (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

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