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We report on the first 3-dimensional numerical simulations of first-order phase transitions in the early universe to include the cosmic fluid as well as the scalar field order parameter. We calculate the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-30 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan J. Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David J. Weir

A precise determination of the bubble wall velocity $v_w$ is crucial for making accurate predictions of the baryon asymmetry and gravitational wave (GW) signals in models of electroweak baryogenesis (EWBG). Working in the local thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Marcela Carena , Aurora Ireland , Tong Ou , Isaac R. Wang

Thermal corrections in classically conformal models typically induce a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, thereby resulting in a stochastic gravitational wave background that could be detectable at gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Marzola , Antonio Racioppi , Ville Vaskonen

We perform direct numerical simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the early universe and numerically compute the resulting stochastic background of gravitational waves and relic magnetic fields. These simulations do not make the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-15 Alberto Roper Pol , Sayan Mandal , Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili , Arthur Kosowsky

It is widely believed that the standard model is a low energy effective theory which may have higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators. The existence of these new operators can lead to interesting dynamics for the evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-01 Robert Poltis

A first order electroweak phase transition probes physics beyond the Standard Model on multiple frontiers and therefore is of immense interest for theoretical exploration. We conduct a model-independent study of the effects of relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Upalaparna Banerjee , Sabyasachi Chakraborty , Suraj Prakash , Shakeel Ur Rahaman

We study the gravitational radiation produced by the collisions of bubble walls or thin fluid shells in cosmological phase transitions. Using the so-called envelope approximation, we obtain analytically the asymptotic behavior of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ariel Megevand , Agustin Membiela

We investigate the production and possible detection of gravitational waves stemming from the electroweak phase transition in the early universe in models of minimal walking technicolor. In particular we discuss the two possible scenarios…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Matti Jarvinen , Chris Kouvaris , Francesco Sannino

First order phase transitions are well-motivated and extensively studied sources of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. The vacuum energy released during such transitions is assumed to be transferred primarily either to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Ryusuke Jinno , Bibhushan Shakya , Jorinde van de Vis

Physics beyond the Standard Model may give rise to first-order phase transitions proceeding via the nucleation of vacuum bubbles, whose subsequent collisions generate gravitational waves (GWs). Their detection would open the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Katarina Trailović

We discuss possibilities to observe stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds produced by the electroweak phase transition in the early universe. Once the first-order phase transition occurs, which is still predicted in a lot of theories…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-06 Yohei Kikuta , Kazunori Kohri , Eunseong So

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale are detectable by future space-based detectors like LISA. The lifetime of the resulting shock waves plays an important role in determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

In this paper we discuss some general aspects of the gravitational wave background arising from post-inflationary short-lasting cosmological events such as phase transitions. We concentrate on the physics which determines the shape and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Thomas Konstandin , Geraldine Servant

We perform a three dimensional lattice simulation of the electroweak symmetry breaking process through a two-step phase transition, where one of the two steps is a first order phase transition. Our results show that: 1) when the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 Zizhuo Zhao , Yuefeng Di , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai

What is the maximum possible strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition and the resulting gravitational wave (GW) signal? While naively one might expect that supercooling could increase the strength of the transition to very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , José Miguel No

We consider gravitational wave production by bubble collisions during a cosmological first-order phase transition. In the literature, such spectra have been estimated by simulating the bubble dynamics, under so-called thin-wall and envelope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Ryusuke Jinno , Masahiro Takimoto

It is believed that first-order phase transitions at or around the GUT scale will produce high-frequency gravitational radiation. This radiation is a consequence of the collisions and coalescence of multiple bubbles during the transition.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-04 Hillary L. Child , John T. Giblin

We propose a gauge singlet scalar with mass around 1-100 TeV as a thermal heavy dark matter candidate along with a dilaton as a Higgs portal mediator in a dimensionless scalar extension of the Standard Model. We demonstrate analytically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Parsa Ghorbani

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen