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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

We update predictions for the gravitational wave (GW) signal from a strongly supercooled phase transition in an illustrative classically conformal U(1)$_{B-L}$ model. We implement $\propto \gamma^2$ scaling of the friction on the bubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

The bubble wall velocity is essential for the phase transition dynamics in the early universe and its cosmological implications, such as the energy budget of phase transition gravitational wave and electroweak baryogenesis. One key factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Xiao Wang , Fa Peng Huang , Xinmin Zhang

The primordial gravitational wave background (GWB) offers an exciting future avenue of discovery for new physics. Its information content encodes multiple eras in the early Universe's history, corresponding to many orders of magnitude in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Thomas Kite , Jens Chluba , Andrea Ravenni , Subodh P. Patil

This paper studies gravitational waves in a dark matter model composed of three types of particles with distinct spins, along with a scalar field $\phi$ that mediates interactions between Standard Model particles and dark matter. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Mohammad Hossein Rahimi Abkenar , Ahmad Mohamadnejad , Reza Sepahvand

Part A of this article is devoted to the general investigation of the gravitational-wave emission by post-Newtonian sources. We show how the radiation field far from the source, as well as its near-zone inner gravitational field, can (in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Luc Blanchet

We perform the three dimensional lattice simulation of the magnetic field and gravitational wave productions from bubble collisions during the first-order electroweak phase transition. Except that of the gravitational wave, the power-law…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 Yuefeng Di , Jialong Wang , Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Liu

An epoch of matter domination in the early universe can enhance the primordial stochastic gravitational wave signal, potentially making it detectable to upcoming gravitational wave experiments. However, the resulting gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Matthew Pearce , Lauren Pearce , Graham White , Csaba Balázs

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

The gravitational wave, traveling a long cosmological distance to reach interferometers, interacts with the (homogeneous and isotropic) cosmological background, so generally speaking, its amplitude and phase are modified in some nontrivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-27 Shaoqi Hou , Xi-Long Fan , Zong-Hong Zhu

We calculate the gravitational-wave spectra produced by the electroweak phase transition with TeV-scale Beyond-Standard-Model physics in the early universe. Our study captures the effect of quantum and thermal fluctuations within a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Astrid Eichhorn , Johannes Lumma , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert , Masatoshi Yamada

Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions are a promising probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, as many extensions of the standard model result in first-order phase transitions in the early universe, from which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Mika Mäki

We compare the accuracy of published formulae that transform the linear perturbation theory power spectrum into the nonlinear regime against the results of an ensemble of large N-body simulations. We find that the modified transformation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 C. M. Baugh , E. Gaztanaga

Loop quantum cosmology provides an efficient framework to study the evolution of the Universe beyond the classical Big Bang paradigm. Because of holonomy corrections, the singularity is replaced by a "bounce". The dynamics of the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Jakub Mielczarek , Thomas Cailleteau , Julien Grain , Aurelien Barrau

When atoms and molecules are ionized by laser pulses of finite duration and increasingly high intensities, the validity of the much used dipole approximation, in which the spatial dependence and magnetic component of the external field are…

We study gravitational waves from supercooled cosmological first-order phase transitions. If such a transition is followed by inefficient reheating, the evolution history of the universe is modified by a period of early matter domination.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-05 Adam Gonstal , Marek Lewicki , Bogumila Swiezewska

We study the spectrum of gravitational waves produced by a first order phase transition in a hidden sector that is colder than the visible sector. In this scenario, bubbles of the hidden sector vacuum can be nucleated through either thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Malcolm Fairbairn , Edward Hardy , Alastair Wickens

We study the effect of density perturbations on the process of first-order phase transitions and gravitational wave production in the early Universe. We are mainly interested in how the distribution of nucleated bubbles is affected by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Henrique Rubira , Jorinde van de Vis

We study the power spectrum of the velocity field induced during a first-order phase transition occurring in the radiation-dominated era. We focus on the phase of bubble expansion, assuming that it ends with the onset of the sound-wave…

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