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Too light primordial black holes evaporate and are therefore strongly constrained by various bounds, e.g. Cosmic Microwave Background distortion. However, if they are formed strongly clustered, the corresponding haloes may collapse in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 A. J. Iovino , M. Maggiore , N. Muttoni , A. Riotto

Light bosons can form a gravitational atom (GA) around a spinning black hole through the superradiance process. Considering the black hole to be part of a binary system, the tidal potential of the companion periodically perturbs the GA such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Antonios Kyriazis , Fengwei Yang

Gravitational waves (GWs) can convert into electromagnetic waves in the presence of a magnetic field via the Gertsenshtein-Zeldovich (GZ) effect. The characteristics of the magnetic field substantially affect this conversion probability.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei Hong , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang

We study supercooled first-order phase transitions above the QCD scale in a wide class of conformal Majoron-like U(1)' models that explain the totality of active neutrino oscillation data and produce a detectable stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 João Gonçalves , Danny Marfatia , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik

We study the gravitational wave (GW) signature in the doublet left-right symmetric model (DLRSM) resulting from the strong first-order phase transition (SFOPT) associated with $SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L}$-breaking. For different values of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Siddhartha Karmakar , Dhruv Ringe

Spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries like $Z_2$ leads to the formation of stable topological defects such as domain walls which, if allowed to dominate, can potentially be in conflict with cosmological observations. Incorporating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Debasish Borah , Indrajit Saha

Ultralight boson clouds can form around black holes in binaries through superradiance, and undergo resonant level transitions at certain orbit frequencies. In this work, we investigate the gravitational waves emitted by the clouds during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-14 Si-Tong Peng , Jun Zhang

The exact properties of dark matter remain largely unknown despite the accumulating evidence. If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting massive particles, it would be accreted by the black hole in the galactic center and form a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Gen-Liang Li , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Beyond the Standard Model physics is required to explain both dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the universe, the latter possibly generated during a strong first-order electroweak phase transition. While many proposed models tackle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-17 Simone Biondini , Philipp Schicho , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen

In gauge-mediated theories supersymmetry breaking originates in a strongly interacting sector and is communicated to the ordinary sparticles via SU(3)$\times$SU(2)$\times$U(1) carrying ``messenger'' particles. Stable baryons of the strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Dimopoulos , G. F. Giudice , A. Pomarol

Searches for high frequency gravitational waves using cavities based on the Gertsenshtein effect were recently proposed, building off existing axion dark matter experiments. In particular, the sensitivity of axion dark matter experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Rodolfo Capdevilla , Graciela B. Gelmini , Jonah Hyman , Alexander J. Millar , Edoardo Vitagliano

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

Cold dark matter may form dense structures around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), significantly influencing their local environments. These dense regions are ideal sites for the formation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chen Feng , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

A light hidden photon or axion-like particle is a good dark matter candidate and they are often associated with the spontaneous breaking of dark global or gauged U(1) symmetry. We consider the dark Higgs dynamics around the phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Kazunori Nakayama , Wen Yin

We explore gravitational-wave (GW) signatures from a strong first-order phase transition in a non-Abelian dark sector, which naturally gives rise to vector dark matter. We consider a general class of models featuring a new dark gauge sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Alexander Belyaev , Mårten Bertenstam , João Gonçalves , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik , Nakorn Thongyoi

Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter is a thermal relic with momentum-suppressed direct-detection cross section. We study the most general model of pseudo-Goldstone dark matter arising from the complex-singlet extension of the Standard Model. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Tommi Alanne , Nico Benincasa , Matti Heikinheimo , Kristjan Kannike , Venus Keus , Niko Koivunen , Kimmo Tuominen

We consider extensions of the Standard Model by a hidden sector consisting of a gauge field coupled with a scalar field. Assuming the absence of dimensionful parameters in the tree level potential, radiative symmetry breaking will make the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Mads T. Frandsen , Matti Heikinheimo , Mattias E. Thing , Kimmo Tuominen , Martin Rosenlyst

Gravitational waves may be one of the few direct observables produced by ultralight bosons, conjectured dark matter candidates that could be the key to several problems in particle theory, high-energy physics and cosmology. These axionlike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Ken K. Y. Ng , Maximiliano Isi , Carl-Johan Haster , Salvatore Vitale

Within a recently proposed classically conformal model, in which the generation of neutrino masses is linked to spontaneous scale symmetry breaking, we investigate the associated phase transition and find it to be of strong first order with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-13 Vedran Brdar , Alexander J. Helmboldt , Jisuke Kubo

Just like light, gravitational waves (GWs) are deflected and magnified by gravitational fields as they propagate through the Universe. However, their low frequency, phase coherence and feeble coupling to matter allow for distinct lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Giovanni Tambalo , Miguel Zumalacárregui , Liang Dai , Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung