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The evidence of the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is reported by multiple pulsar timing array collaborations. While a prominent candidate of the origin is astrophysical from supermassive black hole binaries,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Katsuya T. Abe , Yuichiro Tada

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

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

We investigate the cosmological first-order chiral phase transition of QCD, and for the first time calculate its parameters which can fully determine the gravitational wave spectrum. With the state-of-the-art calculation from the functional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-12 Hui-wen Zheng , Fei Gao , Ligong Bian , Si-xue Qin , Yu-xin Liu

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

Gravitational-wave (GW) signals offer a unique window into the dynamics of the early universe. GWs may be generated by the topological defects produced in the early universe, which contain information on the symmetry of UV physics. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Yunjia Bao , Keisuke Harigaya , Lian-Tao Wang

Using a five-dimensional warped model including a scalar potential with an exponential behavior in the infrared, and strong back-reaction over the metric, we study the electroweak phase transition, and explore parameter regions that were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-28 Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mariano Quiros

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 summarise the physics of first-order phase transitions in the early universe, and the possible ways in which they might come about. We then focus on gravitational waves, emphasising general qualitative features of stochastic backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Djuna Croon , David J. Weir

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

We review the production of gravitational waves by an electroweak first order phase transition. The resulting signal is a good candidate for detection at next-generation gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA. Detection of such a source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 David J. Weir

We explore the possibility of detecting gravitational waves generated by first order phase transitions in multiple dark sectors. Nnaturalness is taken as a sample model that features multiple additional sectors, many of which undergo phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-25 Paul Archer-Smith , Dylan Linthorne , Daniel Stolarski

A strong first-order phase transition in a dark sector may produce all or part of the low-frequency gravitational wave signal recently reported by the NANOGrav Collaboration and other pulsar timing arrays. Here we point out, with a simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Lucas Brown , Stefano Profumo , Aditi Gangadharan , Zeynep Su Koç

It is currently believed that the Standard Model is an effective low energy theory which in principle may contain higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators. These operators may modify the standard model Higgs potential in many ways,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Eric Greenwood , Pascal M. Vaudrevange

In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we elaborate on the possibility that this signal comes from new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-02 Eric Madge , Enrico Morgante , Cristina Puchades-Ibáñez , Nicklas Ramberg , Wolfram Ratzinger , Sebastian Schenk , Pedro Schwaller

In this work, we show that a large class of models with a composite dark sector undergo a strong first order phase transition in the early universe, which could lead to a detectable gravitational wave signal. We summarise the basic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-04 Pedro Schwaller

The gravitational wave (GW) background produced at the cosmological chiral phase transition in a conformal extension of the standard model is studied. To obtain the bounce solution of coupled field equations we implement an iterative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Mayumi Aoki , Jisuke Kubo

Theories with more than one scalar field often exhibit phase transitions producing potentially detectable gravitational wave (GW) signal. In this work we study the semi-annihilating $\mathbb{Z}_3$ dark matter model, whose dark sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-08 Nico Benincasa , Andrzej Hryczuk , Kristjan Kannike , Maxim Laletin

We study gravitational waves generated by the cosmological magnetic fields induced via bubble collisions during the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions. The magnetic field generation mechanisms considered here are based on the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tina Kahniashvili , Leonard Kisslinger , Trevor Stevens

First order phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a stochastic background of gravitational waves. A hypothetical first order electroweak phase transition is particularly interesting in this respect, since the signal is in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chiara Caprini