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Supercooled phase transitions in conformal dark sectors explain NANOGrav data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-26 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

According to recent lore, it is difficult to explain the evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background obtained by pulsar timing arrays with supercooled first-order phase transitions (FOPTs). We demonstrate that supercooled FOPTs in dark U(1)' models with a conformal dark sector easily explain the nHz signal at NANOGrav.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2501.11619,
  title  = {Supercooled phase transitions in conformal dark sectors explain NANOGrav data},
  author = {João Gonçalves and Danny Marfatia and António P. Morais and Roman Pasechnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.11619},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Version to appear in PLB

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