Sensitivity to Dark Sector Scales from Gravitational Wave Signatures
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2022-09-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We consider gravitational wave signals produced by a first-order phase transition in a theory with a generic renormalizable thermal effective potential of power law form. We find the frequency and amplitude of the gravitational wave signal can be related in a straightforward manner to the parameters of the thermal effective potential. This leads to a general conclusion; if the mass of the dark Higgs is less than 1% of the dark Higgs vacuum expectation value, then the gravitational wave signal will be unobservable at all upcoming and planned gravitational wave observatories.
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@article{arxiv.2203.11736,
title = {Sensitivity to Dark Sector Scales from Gravitational Wave Signatures},
author = {James B. Dent and Bhaskar Dutta and Sumit Ghosh and Jason Kumar and Jack Runburg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11736},
year = {2022}
}
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