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We study the feebly interacting massive particle dark matter whose production processes are significantly affected by the phase evolution and the complicated thermal corrections to the vector boson. We calculate the freeze-in processes to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Ligong Bian , Yi-Lei Tang , Ruiyu Zhou

We investigate the possibility of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition during the early universe within the framework of the gauged two-Higgs doublet model (G2HDM) and explore its detectability through stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Van Que Tran , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

The existence of dark matter is supported by multiple astrophysical observations, yet its particle nature remains unknown. The development of gravitational wave astronomy, especially with future space-based detectors such as LISA, provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yuezhe Chen , Pan-Pan Wang , Bo Wang , Rui Luo , Cheng-Gang Shao

Dark matter may not be perfectly stable, and its decay could generate distinctive gravitational-wave signatures. In this work, we present model-independent predictions for the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Álvaro Cendal

Theories in which the dark matter (DM) candidate is a fermion transforming chirally under a gauge symmetry are attractive, as the gauge symmetry would protect the DM mass. In such theories, the universe would have undergone a phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-14 Tomohiro Abe , K. S. Babu , Ajay Kaladharan

Cosmic domain walls are harmless, provided that their tension decreases with expansion of the Universe. This setup can be realized, if the scale of spontaneous symmetry breaking is induced dynamically through the interaction with hot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 E. Babichev , D. Gorbunov , S. Ramazanov , A. Vikman

If dark matter stems from the background of a very light gauge boson, this gauge boson could exert forces on test masses in gravitational wave detectors, resulting in displacements with a characteristic frequency set by the gauge boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Aaron Pierce , Keith Riles , Yue Zhao

Although searches for dark matter have lasted for decades, no convincing signal has been found without ambiguity in underground detections, cosmic ray observations, and collider experiments. We show by example that gravitational wave (GW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Bo-Qiang Lu , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Da Huang

We investigate the breaking of dark $SU(2)_d$ symmetry at different temperature scales, occurring after Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking or following QCD symmetry breaking. We focus on assessing the potential of the hidden monopoles generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-17 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

We explore the gravitational wave probes of a two-component dark matter framework, consisting of an $SU(2)_L$ triplet scalar and a Standard Model singlet fermion. The triplet scalar dark matter typically remains underabundant in the region…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Pankaj Borah , Pradipta Ghosh , Abhijit Kumar Saha

The inert doublet model is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model that contains a dark matter candidate and modifies the dynamics of the electroweak symmetry breaking. In order to detail its phenomenology, we perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 Nico Benincasa , Luigi Delle Rose , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola

We investigate the potential stochastic gravitational waves from first-order electroweak phase transitions in a model with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter and two Higgs doublets. The dark matter candidate can naturally evade direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Zhao Zhang , Chengfeng Cai , Xue-Min Jiang , Yi-Lei Tang , Zhao-Huan Yu , Hong-Hao Zhang

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

We investigate an extension of the Standard Model (SM) with two candidates for dark matter (DM). One of them is a real scalar field and the other is an Abelian gauge field. Except for these two, there is another beyond SM field which has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-04 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We consider the possibility of a gravitational wave signal in an asymmetric dark matter model. In this model a generative sector produces both the baryon asymmetry and a dark matter asymmetry in a strong first-order phase transtion. Bubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Iason Baldes

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

Gravitational waves potentially represent our only direct probe of the universe when it was less than one second old. In particular, first-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate a stochastic background of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tina Kahniashvili , Arthur Kosowsky , Grigol Gogoberidze , Yurii Maravin

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in elementary particle physics. It might well be that the dark matter particle belongs to a dark sector completely secluded or extremely weakly coupled to the visible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-28 Nelleke Bunji , Bartosz Fornal , Kassandra Garcia

Direct detection of gravitational waves from several compact binary coalescences has ushered in a new era of astronomy. It has opened up the possibility of detecting ultralight bosons, predicted by extensions of the Standard Model, from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-19 Shrobana Ghosh

This study explores the parameter space of a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a non-abelian $SU(2)$ group, in which the gauge bosons are stable and acquire mass through a mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking involving a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-02 Nico Benincasa , Luigi Delle Rose , Luca Panizzi , Maimoona Razzaq , Savio Urzetta