Seminarium "Teoria cząstek elementarnych i kosmologia"
sala 1.01, ul. Pasteura 5
Disrael Camargo Neves da Cunha (Louvain University, Belgium)
Stochastic gravitational waves from long cosmic strings
I will report the findings of 2205.04349. We compute the expected strain power spectrum and energy density parameter of the stochastic gravitational wave background created by a network of long cosmic strings evolving throughout cosmic history. The contribution of cosmic string loops is discarded, and our result provides a robust lower bound of the expected signal that applies to most cosmic string models.