We study the effects of various phenomena which may have happened in the early universe on the spectrum of inflationary gravitational waves. The phenomena include phase transitions, entropy productions from non-relativistic matter, the production of dark radiation, and decoupling of dark matter/radiation from thermal bath. These events can create several characteristic signatures in the inflationary gravitational wave spectrum, which may be direct probes of the history of the early universe and the nature of high-energy physics. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.
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Jinno, R., Moroi, T., & Nakayama, K. (2014). Inflationary gravitational waves and the evolution of the early universe. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/01/040
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