Confinement transition to gravitational waves in the one-flavor $SU(4)$ Hyper Stealth Dark Matter theory
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2026-02-27 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The thermodynamics of the gauge theory with a single flavor of fundamental quarks is analyzed on the lattice with dynamical fermion simulations, which is the low-energy sector of a realistic, strongly-interacting dark matter model -- the Hyper Stealth Dark Matter. The gravitational wave spectrum from the first-order confinement transition in the early universe is further calculated, where the effect of the dark sea quarks, which decrease the interface tension in the effective potential of the Polyakov loop, is shown numerically to lower the gravitational wave amplitude.
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@article{arxiv.2602.23002,
title = {Confinement transition to gravitational waves in the one-flavor $SU(4)$ Hyper Stealth Dark Matter theory},
author = {V. Ayyar and R. C. Brower and G. T. Fleming and J. Ingoldby and X. Y. Jin and N. Matsumoto and A. S. Meyer and E. T. Neil and J. C. Osborn and S. Park and C. T. Peterson and D. Schaich and P. Vranas and O. Witzel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23002},
year = {2026}
}
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11 pages, 15 figures