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A Stiff Pre-CMB Era with a Mildly Blue-tilted Tensor Inflationary Era can Explain the 2023 NANOGrav Signal (2309.04850v2)

Published 9 Sep 2023 in astro-ph.CO and gr-qc

Abstract: We examine the effects of a stiff pre-recombination era on the present day's energy spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves. If the background total equation of state parameter at the pre-recombination era is described by a kination era one, this directly affects the modes with characteristic wavenumbers which reenter the Hubble horizon during this stiff era. The stiff era causes a broken-power-law effect on the energy spectrum of the gravitational waves. We use two approaches, one model agnostic and a specific model that can realize this scenario. In all cases, the inflationary era can be realized either by some theory leading to a standard red-tilted tensor spectral index or by some theory which has a mild tensor spectral index $n_{\mathcal{T}}=0.17-0.37$ like an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. For the model agnostic scenario case, the NANOGrav signal can be explained by the stiff pre-recombination era combined with an inflationary era with a mild blue-tilted tensor spectral index $n_{\mathcal{T}}=0.37$ and a low-reheating temperature $T_R\sim 0.1$GeV. In the same case, the red-tilted inflationary theory signal can be detectable by the future LISA, BBO and DECIGO experiments. The model dependent approach is based on a Higgs-axion model which can yield multiple deformations of the background total equation of state parameter, causing multiple broken-power-law behaviors occurring in various eras before and after the recombination era. In this case, the NANOGrav signal is explained by this model in conjunction with an inflationary era with a really mild blue-tilted tensor spectral index $n_{\mathcal{T}}=0.17$ and a low-reheating temperature $T_R\sim 20\,$GeV. In this case, the signal can be detectable by the future Litebird experiment, which is a very characteristic pattern in the tail of the primordial gravitational wave energy spectrum.

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