Beating the Lyth bound by parametric resonance during inflation

Kavli Affiliate: Misao Sasaki

| First 5 Authors: Yi-Fu Cai, Jie Jiang, Misao Sasaki, Valeri Vardanyan, Zihan Zhou

| Summary:

We propose a novel mechanism for enhancing the primordial gravitational waves
without significantly affecting the curvature perturbations produced during
inflation. This is achieved due to non-linear sourcing of resonantly amplified
scalar field fluctuations. Our result is an explicit scale-dependent
counter-example of the famous Lyth bound, which opens up a promising
perspective of producing detectable inflationary tensor modes with low-scale
inflation and a sub-Planckian field excursion. We explicitly demonstrate the
testability of our mechanism with upcoming Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode
observations.

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