Gravitational wave production after inflation for a hybrid inflationary model

Abstract

We discuss a cosmological scenario with a stochastic background of gravitational waves sourced by the tensor perturbation due to a hybrid inflationary model with cubic potential. The tensor-to-scalar ratio for the present hybrid inflationary model is obtained as [Formula: see text]. Gravitational wave spectrum of this stochastic background, for large-scale CMB modes, [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text] is studied. The present-day energy spectrum of gravitational waves [Formula: see text] is sensitively related to the tensor power spectrum and r which is, in turn, dependent on the unknown physics of the early cosmos. This uncertainty is characterized by two parameters: [Formula: see text] logarithmic average over the primordial tensor spectral index and [Formula: see text] logarithmic average over the effective equation-of-state parameter. Thus, exact constraints in the [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] plane can be obtained by comparing theoretical constraints of our model on r and [Formula: see text]. We obtain a limit on [Formula: see text] around the modes probed by CMB scales.