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In the first-order phase transitions (PTs) colliding bubble is an important gravitational wave (GW) source. Following bubble collision, domain walls can be formed when degenerate vacua occur as a result of the breaking of a discrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-16 Dongdong Wei , Yun Jiang

First order phase transitions are well-motivated and extensively studied sources of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. The vacuum energy released during such transitions is assumed to be transferred primarily either to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Ryusuke Jinno , Bibhushan Shakya , Jorinde van de Vis

Here, we consider a classically scale-invariant extension of the Standard Model (SM) with two-component dark matter (DM) candidates, including a Dirac spinor and a scalar DM. We probe the parameter space of the model, constrained by relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Mojtaba Hosseini , Rouzbeh Rouzbehi

First order phase transitions in the early Universe generate gravitational waves, which may be observable in future space-based gravitational wave observatiories, e.g. the European eLISA satellite constellation. The gravitational waves…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-11-17 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

Theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking predict a strong first order cosmological phase transition: we compute the resulting signals, primordial black holes and gravitational waves. These theories employ one SM-neutral scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Martín Arteaga , Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia

We consider a standard model extension equipped with a dark sector where the $U(1)_X^{}$ Abelian gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the dark Higgs mechanism. In this framework, we investigate patterns of the electroweak phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Katsuya Hashino , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Pyungwon Ko , Toshinori Matsui

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

The breaking of an approximate discrete symmetry, the final stages of a first order phase transition, or a post-inflationary biased probability distribution for scalar fields are possible cosmological scenarios characterized by the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marcelo Gleiser , Ronald Roberts

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

We perform a three dimensional lattice simulation of the electroweak symmetry breaking process through a two-step phase transition, where one of the two steps is a first order phase transition. Our results show that: 1) when the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 Zizhuo Zhao , Yuefeng Di , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai

First-order phase transitions in the early Universe are a well-motivated source of gravitational waves (GWs). In this Letter, we identify a previously overlooked GW production mechanism: gravitational transition radiation, arising from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Wen-Yuan Ai

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

Domain wall networks are two-dimensional topological defects generally predicted in many beyond standard model physics. In this Letter, we propose to solve the domain wall problem with the first-order phase transition. We numerically study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Yang Li , Ligong Bian , Yongtao Jia

We study the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) during a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) using the recently introduced Higgsless approach to numerically simulate the fluid motion induced by the PT. We present for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Alberto Roper Pol , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg

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

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

We study the dependence of the observable stochastic gravitational wave background induced by a first-order phase transition on the global properties of the scalar effective potential in particle physics. The scalar potential can be that of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-06 Mikael Chala , Valentin V. Khoze , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

We analytically derive the spectrum of gravitational waves due to magneto-hydrodynamical turbulence generated by bubble collisions in a first-order phase transition. In contrast to previous studies, we take into account the fact that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Geraldine Servant

During a strongly first-order phase transition gravitational waves are produced by bubble collisions and turbulent plasma motion. We analyze the relevant characteristics of the electroweak phase transition in the nMSSM to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin