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We revisit the production of gravitational waves from unstable domain walls analyzing their spectrum by the use of field theoretic lattice simulations with grid size $1024^3$, which is larger than the previous study. We have recognized that…

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Non-Abelian discrete symmetries have been widely used to explain the patterns of lepton masses and flavor mixing. In these models, a given symmetry is assumed at a high scale and then is spontaneously broken by scalars (the flavons), which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-26 Graciela B. Gelmini , Silvia Pascoli , Edoardo Vitagliano , Ye-Ling Zhou

The spontaneous breaking of an $A_4$ flavour symmetry, often used to predict leptonic mixing, can lead to the formation of domain walls which can annihilate and generate a stochastic gravitational wave background. We study this phenomenon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-17 Bowen Fu , Stephen F. King , Luca Marsili , Jessica Turner , Ye-Ling Zhou

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

We propose a novel scenario of Dark Matter production naturally connected with generation of gravitational waves. Dark Matter is modelled as a real scalar, which interacts with the hot primordial plasma through a portal coupling to another…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 S. Ramazanov , E. Babichev , D. Gorbunov , A. Vikman

We investigate collision of a point particle and an infinitely thin planar domain wall interacting gravitationally within the linearized gravity in Minkowski space-time of arbitrary dimension. In this setting we are able to describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 D. V. Gal'tsov , E. Yu. Melkumova , P. A. Spirin

This study offers a detailed analysis of domain wall formation and its cosmological consequences in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled to a scalar field. A central aspect of the model is the scalar field Lagrangian's ability to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Maxim Krasnov , Daulet Berkimbayev , Andrea Addazi , Yermek Aldabergenov , Maxim Khlopov

Motivated by aLIGO's recent discovery of gravitational waves we discuss signatures of new physics that could be seen at ground and space-based interferometers. We show that a first order phase transition in a dark sector would lead to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Joerg Jaeckel , Valentin V. Khoze , Michael Spannowsky

Computing the properties of the bubble wall of a cosmological first order phase transition at electroweak scale is of paramount importance for the correct prediction of the baryon asymmetry of the universe and the spectrum of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Marek Lewicki , Marco Merchand , Mateusz Zych

Employing the publicly available CosmoLattice code, we conduct numerical simulations of a domain wall network and the resulting gravitational waves (GWs) in a radiation-dominated Universe in the $Z_2$-symmetric scalar field model. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 I. Dankovsky , E. Babichev , D. Gorbunov , S. Ramazanov , A. Vikman

Light scalar fields, with double well potentials and direct matter couplings, undergo density driven phase transitions, leading to the formation of domain walls. Such theories could explain dark energy, dark matter or source the nanoHz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-03 Kate Clements , Benjamin Elder , Lucia Hackermueller , Mark Fromhold , Clare Burrage

We demonstrate that novel types of gravitational wave signatures arise in theories with new gauge symmetries broken at high energy scales. For concreteness, we focus on models with gauged baryon number and lepton number, in which neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-09 Jessica Bosch , Zoraida Delgado , Bartosz Fornal , Alejandra Leon

Local and global gravitational effects induced by eternal vacuum domain walls are studied. We concentrate on thin walls between non-equal and non-positive cosmological constants on each side of the wall. These vacuum domain walls fall in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-17 Mirjam Cvetič , Stephen Griffies , Harald H. Soleng

The study of interactions between dark matter and the Higgs field opens an exciting connection between cosmology and particle physics, since such scenarios can impact the features of dark matter as well as interfering with the spontaneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-04 Andreas Mantziris , Orfeu Bertolami

The spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry can lead to the formation of domain walls in the early Universe. In this work, we explore the impact of bias directions on the dynamics of $Z_N$ domain walls, mainly focusing on the $N = 3$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Yuan-Jie Li , Jing Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We report the theoretical derivation and the experimental as well as numerical observation of nonlinear phase domain walls in weakly nonlinear deep water surface gravity waves. The domain walls presented are connecting homogeneous zones of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-06-06 F. Tsitoura , U. Gietz , A. Chabchoub , N. Hoffmann

Gravitational properties of domain walls in fundamental theory and their implications for the trapping of gravity are reviewed. In particular, the difficulties to embed gravity trapping configurations within gauged supergravity is reviewed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 M. Cvetic

We present a complementarity study of gravitational waves and double Higgs production in the $4b$ channel, exploring the gauge singlet scalar extension of the SM. This new physics extension serves as a simplified benchmark model that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-22 Alexandre Alves , Dorival Gonçalves , Tathagata Ghosh , Huai-Ke Guo , Kuver Sinha

We study the formation and evolution of domain walls with initial inflationary fluctuations by numerical lattice calculations that, for the first time, correctly take into account correlations on superhorizon scales. We find that, contrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-28 Diego Gonzalez , Naoya Kitajima , Fuminobu Takahashi , Wen Yin

In this work we study the power spectrum of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background produced by standard and biased domain wall networks, using the Velocity-dependent One-Scale model to compute the cosmological evolution of their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-18 D. Grüber , L. Sousa , P. P. Avelino