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Spikes in the Relic Graviton Background from Quintessential Inflation

Massimo Giovannini

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9903263

Abstract

The energy spectra of gravitational waves (GW) produced in quintessential inflationary models increase in frequency and exhibit a sharp spike around 170 GHz where the associated fraction of critical energy density today stored in relic gravitons is of the order of 10-6. We contrast our findings with the spectra of ordinary inflationary models and we comment about possible detetction strategies of the spike.

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