Circular Polarization of Primordial Gravitational Waves in String-inspired Inflationary Cosmology
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We study a mechanism to produce the circular polarization of primordial gravitational waves.
The circular polarization is generated during the super-inflation driven by the Gauss-Bonnet term in the string-inspired cosmology. The instability in the tensor mode caused by the Gauss-Bonnet term and the parity violation due to the gravitational Chern-Simons term are the essential ingredients of the mechanism. We also discuss detectability of the produced circular polarization of gravitational waves. It turns out that the simple model of single-field inflation contradicts CMB observations. To circumvent this difficulty, we propose a two-field inflation model. In this two-field model, the circular polarization of gravitational waves is created in the frequency range designed by the Big-Bang Observer (BBO) or the deci-hertz gravitational-wave observatory (DECIGO).
11 pages, 7 figures, added new discussions, published version(v3), added references(v4)
11 pages, 7 figures, added new discussions, published version(v3), added references(v4)