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If the Universe underwent a cosmic phase transition, it may have left behind a network of cosmic strings. When these strings arise from the breaking of a gauge symmetry, their decay produces a significant stochastic background of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 Jeff A. Dror , Antonios Kyriazis

The gravitational wave (GW) signals emitted by a network of cosmic strings are reexamined in view of the possible formation of a network of cosmic superstrings at the end of brane inflation. The reconnection probability $p$ of intersecting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Thibault Damour , Alexander Vilenkin

The combination of non-minimal couplings to gravity with the post-inflationary kinetic-dominated era typically appearing in quintessential inflation scenarios may lead to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of internal symmetries and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-18 Dario Bettoni , Guillem Domènech , Javier Rubio

We investigate the anisotropies of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by cosmic strings associated with the spontaneous U(1) symmetry breaking of Grand Unified Theory, which happens at the onset of inflation. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Jing Liu

Gravitational waves (GWs) are one of the key signatures of cosmic strings. If GWs from cosmic strings are detected in future experiments, not only their existence can be confirmed but also their properties might be probed. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Koichi Miyamoto , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Joseph Silk

Cosmic strings represent an attractive source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. However, numerical computation of the GW signal from cosmic strings requires the evaluation of complicated integral and sum expressions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schroeder

Physical scenarios, leading to highly energetic stochastic gravitational waves backgrounds (for frequencies ranging from the $\mu$Hz up to the GHz) are examined. In some cases the typical amplitude of the logarithmic energy spectrum can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Massimo Giovannini

Based on new developments in the understanding of supernovae (SNe) as gravitational-wave (GW) sources we estimate the GW background from all cosmic SNe. For a broad range of frequencies around 1 Hz, this background is crudely comparable to…

Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by presenting definitions of GWs in flat space-time and in a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-23 Chiara Caprini , Daniel G. Figueroa

New physics beyond the Standard Model can give rise to stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds, for example through cosmic strings. In this way, gravitational-wave searches with pulsar-timing arrays as well as existing and future laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-01 Astrid Eichhorn , Rafael R. Lino dos Santos , João Lucas Miqueleto

We investigate gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) of primordial origin that would manifest only at ultra-high frequencies, from kilohertz to 100 gigahertz, and leave no signal at either LIGO, Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer, LISA, or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-27 Géraldine Servant , Peera Simakachorn

Models of string cosmology predict a stochastic background of gravitational waves with a spectrum that is strongly tilted towards high frequencies. I give simple approximate expressions for spectral densities of the cosmic background which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Ram Brustein

Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

Cosmic strings and first-order phase transition are two main sources for the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In this work, we study the stochastic gravitational wave radiation from cosmic string which is formed after the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-25 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

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

Many motivated extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of cosmic strings. Gravitational waves originating from the dynamics of the resulting cosmic string network have the ability to probe many otherwise inaccessible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Yanou Cui , Marek Lewicki , David E. Morrissey , James D. Wells

A spectrum of relic stochastic gravitational radiation, strongly tilted towards high frequencies, and characterized by two basic parameters is shown to emerge in a class of string theory models. We estimate the required sensitivity for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Brustein , M. Gasperini , M. Giovannini , G. Veneziano

Cosmic strings, theoretical one-dimensional topological defects from the early universe, provide a valuable opportunity for exploring dark matter (DM) production and gravitational wave (GW) emission. Our study investigates the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Hanyu Cheng , Luca Visinelli

Cosmic strings are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model and constitute a plausible source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. In a previous article arXiv:2405.10937v2, we pointed out that the GW spectrum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schröder

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