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We consider the electroweak phase transition in the conformal extension of the standard model known as SU(2)cSM. Apart from the standard model particles, this model contains an additional scalar and gauge field that are both charged under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-15 Tomislav Prokopec , Jonas Rezacek , Bogumila Swiezewska

Chain inflation proceeds through a series of first order phase transitions, which can release considerable gravitational waves (GW). We demonstrate that bubble collisions can leave an observable signature for future high-frequency probes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-22 Amjad Ashoorioon , Katherine Freese

We show that it is possible to use gravitational wave detectors to observe the occurrence of a first order phase transition in Pati-Salam extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the peak frequency of the expected gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Wei-Chih Huang , Francesco Sannino , Zhi-Wei Wang

Gravitational waves (GWs) were recently detected for the first time. This revolutionary discovery opens a new way of learning about particle physics through GWs from first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in the early Universe. FOPTs could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Peter Athron , Csaba Balázs , Andrew Fowlie , Lachlan Morris , Lei Wu

We explore the production of gravitational waves (GW) resulting from a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a non-minimally coupled `Dark Higgs Inflation' model. Utilizing a dark sector scalar field as the inflaton, we demonstrate how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Jörn Kersten , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park , Juhoon Son , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

Domain wall (DW) networks may have formed in the early universe following the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry. Notably, several particle physics models predict the existence of current-carrying DWs, which can capture and store…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Anish Ghoshal , Yu Hamada

We study domain wall induced by spontaneously broken $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry and its gravitational wave signature in the standard model with a complex scalar in connection with dark matter physics. In a minimal setup, a linear term of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Hieu The Pham , Eibun Senaha

We study the generation of gravitational waves in the electroweak phase transition. We consider a few extensions of the Standard Model, namely, the addition of scalar singlets, the minimal supersymmetric extension, and the addition of TeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

We initiate the study of gravitational wave (GW) signals from first-order phase transitions in supersymmetry-breaking hidden sectors. Such phase transitions often occur along a pseudo-flat direction universally related to supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-02 Nathaniel Craig , Noam Levi , Alberto Mariotti , Diego Redigolo

We study the gravitational wave spectrum from the confinement-deconfinement phase transi-tion in the holographic QCD models for both light quark and heavy quark. We obtain the gravitationalwave spectrum in the deflagration, detonation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Meng-Wei Li , Yi Yang , Pei-Hung Yuan

We show how the generation of right-handed neutrino masses in Majoron models may be associated with a first-order phase transition and accompanied by the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs). We explore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Pasquale Di Bari , Danny Marfatia , Ye-Ling Zhou

We revisit the calculation of the gravitational wave spectra generated in a classically scale-invariant $SU(2)$ gauge sector with a scalar field in the adjoint representation, as discussed by J.~Jaeckel, et al. The finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Da Huang , Bo-Qiang Lu

First-order phase transitions exist in many models beyond the Standard Model and can generate detectable stochastic gravitational waves for a strong one. Using the cosmological observables in big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Yang Bai , Mrunal Korwar

First order phase transitions in the early universe naturally lead to the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves and to the generation of a matter-antimatter asymmetry. The dynamics of the phase transition is affected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Andrea Guiggiani , Ángel Gil Muyor , Giuliano Panico

We investigate the properties of a stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in the regime of extreme supercooling. We study a scenario whereby the percolation temperature that signifies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-09 Archil Kobakhidze , Cyril Lagger , Adrian Manning , Jason Yue

Spectra of stochastic gravitational waves (GW) generated in cosmological first-order phase transitions are computed within strongly correlated theories with a dual holographic description. The theories are mostly used as models of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Francesco Bigazzi , Alessio Caddeo , Aldo L. Cotrone , Angel Paredes

Drastic changes in the early universe such as first-order phase transition can produce a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. We investigate the testability of a scale invariant extension of the standard model (SM) using the GW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 Mayumi Aoki , Hiromitsu Goto , Jisuke Kubo

We study the general NMSSM with an emphasis on the parameter regions with a very strong first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT). In the presence of heavy fields coupled to the Higgs sector, the analysis can be problematic due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-08 Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin , Germano Nardini , Ingo Rues

Employing effective field theory techniques, we advance computations of thermal parameters that enter predictions for the gravitational wave spectra from first-order electroweak phase transitions. Working with the real-singlet-extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Van Que Tran

We investigate first order phase transitions in a holographic setting of five-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field, constructing phase diagrams of the dual field theory at finite temperature. We scan over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Fëanor Reuben Ares , Mark Hindmarsh , Carlos Hoyos , Niko Jokela