Damping of primordial gravitational waves from generalized sources

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Dent, James B
Krauss, Lawrence
Sabharwal, Subir
Vachaspati, Tanmay

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American Physical Society

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It has been shown that a cosmological background with an anisotropic stress tensor, appropriate for a free-streaming thermal neutrino background, can damp primordial gravitational waves after they enter the horizon, and can thus affect the cosmic microwav

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Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

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