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Gravitational Waves from Walking Technicolor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-01-08 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study gravitational waves from the first-order electroweak phase transition in the SU(Nc)SU(N_c) gauge theory with Nf/Nc1N_f/N_c\gg 1 ("large NfN_f QCD") as a candidate for the walking technicolor, which is modeled by the U(Nf)×U(Nf)U(N_f)\times U(N_f) linear sigma model with classical scale symmetry (without mass term), particularly for Nf=8N_f=8 ("one-family model"). This model exhibits spontaneous breaking of the scale symmetry as well as the U(Nf)×U(Nf)U(N_f)\times U(N_f) radiatively through the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism aˋ\grave{a} la Gildener-Weinberg, thus giving rise to a light pseudo dilaton (techni-dilaton) to be identified with the 125 GeV Higgs. This model possess a strong first-order electroweak phase transition due to the resultant Coleman-Weinberg type potential. We estimate the bubble nucleation that exhibits an ultra supercooling and then the signal for a stochastic gravitational wave produced via the strong first-order electroweak phase transition. We show that the amplitude can be reached to the expected sensitivities of the LISA.

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@article{arxiv.1811.05670,
  title  = {Gravitational Waves from Walking Technicolor},
  author = {Kohtaroh Miura and Hiroshi Ohki and Saeko Otani and Koichi Yamawaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.05670},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

24 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; version accepted for publication in JHEP

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