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Among various scenarios of baryon asymmetry of the Universe, electroweak baryogenesis is directly connected with physics of the Higgs sector. We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-24 Toshinori Matsui

A stochastic background of gravitational radiation from cosmological processes in the very early Universe is potentially detectable. We review the gravitational radiation which may arise from cosmological phase transitions, covering both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Arthur Kosowsky , Andrew Mack , Tinatin Kahniashvili

This review article is based on a seminar presented at the Higgs pairs workshop 2025. Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds can serve as probe of the diverse phenomenology encountered in beyond-Standard-Model scenarios featuring phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Chiara Caprini

We investigate the properties of a stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in the regime of extreme supercooling. We study a scenario whereby the percolation temperature that signifies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-09 Archil Kobakhidze , Cyril Lagger , Adrian Manning , Jason Yue

We discuss the observability of circular polarisation of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) generated by helical turbulence following a first-order cosmological phase transition, using a model that incorporates the effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen , Alastair Wickens

In a wide class of new physics models, there exist scalar fields that obtain vacuum expectation values of high energy scales. We study the possibility that the standard model Higgs field has experienced first order phase transition at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-23 Ryusuke Jinno , Kazunori Nakayama , Masahiro Takimoto

This project is aimed at studying the first-order phase transitions, that is presumed to have ensued in the early universe, and its consequences on the primordial gravitational waves. The effects of bubble nucleation, growth, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Yashmitha Kumaran

We consider gravitational waves (GWs) generated by primordial inverse-cascade helical magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence produced by bubble collisions at the electroweak phase transitions (EWPT). Compared to the unmagnetized EWPT case,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Tina Kahniashvili , Grigol Gogoberidze , Bharat Ratra

A model for the acoustic production of gravitational waves at a first order phase transition is presented. The source of gravitational radiation is the sound waves generated by the explosive growth of bubbles of the stable phase. The model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mark Hindmarsh

We develop a tool for the analysis of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from cosmological first-order phase transitions with LISA: we initiate a template databank for these signals, prototype their searches, and forecast their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Marek Lewicki , Eric Madge , Marco Merchand , Germano Nardini , Mauro Pieroni , Alberto Roper Pol , Ville Vaskonen

We provide a roadmap for analyzing the interplay between hypothetical future collider observations and the detection of a gravitational wave signal produced by a strong first order electroweak phase transition in beyond the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-06 Leon S. Friedrich , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Van Que Tran

We consider a standard model extension equipped with a dark sector where the $U(1)_X^{}$ Abelian gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the dark Higgs mechanism. In this framework, we investigate patterns of the electroweak phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Katsuya Hashino , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Pyungwon Ko , Toshinori Matsui

We explore the potential of gravitational waves (GWs) to probe the pre-BBN era of the early universe, focusing on the effects of energy injection. Specifically, we examine a hidden sector alongside the Standard Model that undergoes a strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-12 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Mudit Rai

We discuss a new source of gravitational waves (GWs) from first-order phase transitions. The collisions of bubbles of the new phase can efficiently produce particles that couple to the background field undergoing the transition, thereby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski , Kentaro Kasai , Bibhushan Shakya

We conducted three-dimensional lattice simulations to study the density perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs) during first-order phase transition (FOPT). We find that for phase transition strength $\alpha > 1$, the forward motion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Jintao Zou , Zhiqing Zhu , Zizhuo Zhao , Ligong Bian

Gravitational wave detectors in space, particularly the LISA project, can study a rich variety of astronomical systems whose gravitational radiation is not detectable from the ground, because it is emitted in the low-frequency gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Schutz

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves due to the gravitational instability of primordial density perturbations in an early matter-dominated era which could be detectable by experiments such as LIGO and LISA. We use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-08 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Sumit Ghosh , Jason Kumar , Jack Runburg

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

We discuss the gravitational wave spectrum produced by first-order phase transitions seeded by domain wall networks. This setup is important for many two-step phase transitions as seen for example in the singlet extension of the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Simone Blasi , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg