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The LISA forecast on a smooth crossover beyond the Standard Model through the scalar-induced gravitational waves

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-03-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Supposing the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) gravitational wave (GW) detector, we exhibit the detectability of a hypothetical smooth crossover in the early universe beyond the Standard Model of particle physics through the scalar-induced gravitational wave (SIGW) in terms of the Fisher forecast. A crossover at 100TeV\sim100\,\mathrm{TeV} can leave a signal on the GW spectrum in the mHz\sim\mathrm{mHz} frequency range, the sweet spot of the LISA sensitivity. These possibilities are also interesting in the primordial black hole (PBH) context as the associated PBH mass 1022g\sim10^{22}\,\mathrm{g} lies at the window to explain the whole dark matter. We found that the properties of the crossover can be well determined if the power spectrum of primordial scalar perturbations are as large as 5×104\sim5\times10^{-4} on the corresponding scale 1012Mpc1\sim10^{12}\,\mathrm{Mpc^{-1}}.

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@article{arxiv.2404.12591,
  title  = {The LISA forecast on a smooth crossover beyond the Standard Model through the scalar-induced gravitational waves},
  author = {Albert Escrivà and Ryoto Inui and Yuichiro Tada and Chul-Moon Yoo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12591},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

9 pages, 6 figures; v2 matches the accepted version in PRD, v3 corrected red texts to black texts