Production and detection of cosmic gravitational wave background in string cosmology

✍ Scribed by Ram Brustein

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 917 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0960-0779
• DOI: 10.1016/s0960-0779(98)00196-9

✦ Synopsis

String cosmology models predict a cosmic background of gravitational waves produced during a period of dilatondriven inflation. I describe the background, present astrophysical and cosmological bounds on it, and discuss in some detail how it may be possible to detect it with large operating and planned gravitational wave detectors. The possible use of smaller detectors is outlined.