Polarized cosmological gravitational waves from primordial helical turbulence.
We show that helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition generates circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The characteristic frequency of these GWs for an extreme case of the phase transition model is around 10(-3)-10(-2) Hz with an energy density parameter as high as 10(-12)-10(-11). The possibility of detection is briefly discussed.
Kahniashvili
Tina
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Department of Physics, Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
Gogoberidze
Grigol
G
Ratra
Bharat
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