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We explore the possibility that domain wall networks generate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observed as a strong common power-law process in the Data Release-2 of Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. We find that a broad range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-05 Ligong Bian , Shuailiang Ge , Changhong Li , Jing Shu , Junchao Zong

In this paper we study phase transitions in a maximally symmetric composite Higgs model with next-to-minimal coset, where a pseudoscalar singlet emerges alongside the Higgs doublet. The maximal symmetry guarantees the finiteness of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Avik Banerjee , Marco Merchand , Ignacy Nałęcz

We investigate the cosmological constraints on axion models where the domain wall number is greater than one. In these models, multiple domain walls attached to strings are formed, and they survive for a long time. Their annihilation occurs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-26 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa , Toyokazu Sekiguchi

The multicritical-point principle (MPP) provides a natural explanation of the large hierarchy between the Planck and electroweak scales. We consider a scenario in which MPP is applied to the Standard Model extended by two real singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Yuta Hamada , Hikaru Kawai , Kiyoharu Kawana , Kin-ya Oda , Kei Yagyu

We investigate the constraints that can be placed on the cosmic string tension by using the current Pulsar Timing Array limits on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We have developed a code to compute the spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. A. Sanidas , R. A. Battye , B. W. Stappers

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

We study a minimally extended version of the Standard Model where baryon number is gauged with a $U(1)_B$ symmetry. This model can be made anomaly-free by adding a set of additional fermions. The lightest component of these fermions behaves…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Taramati , Lekhika Malhotra , Zafri A. Borboruah , Sudhanwa Patra

We explore a concrete realization of a Nelson-Barr model addressing the strong CP problem with suppressed unfavorable corrections. This model has a scalar field that spontaneously breaks discrete symmetry, and its phase component can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Kai Murai , Kazunori Nakayama

We study gravity wave production and baryogenesis at the electroweak phase transition, in a real singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model, including vector-like top partners to generate the CP violation needed for electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 James M. Cline , Avi Friedlander , Dong-Ming He , Kimmo Kainulainen , Benoit Laurent , David Tucker-Smith

We explore the prospects of probing the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (CxSM) with gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition. The study establishes a connection of the scalar potential parameters, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Qingyuan Liang , Ligong Bian , Huai-Ke Guo , Yongcheng Wu

We revisit the production of gravitational waves from unstable domain walls analyzing their spectrum by the use of field theoretic lattice simulations with grid size $1024^3$, which is larger than the previous study. We have recognized that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

Gravitational waves are excellent tools to probe the foundations of General Relativity in the strongly dynamical and non-linear regime. One such foundation is Lorentz symmetry, which can be broken in the gravitational sector by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Devin Hansen , Nicolas Yunes , Kent Yagi

By assuming a dynamical source of CP violation, the tension between sufficient CP violation for successful electroweak baryogenesis and strong constraints from current electric dipole moment measurements could be alleviated. We study how to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Fa Peng Huang , Zhuoni Qian , Mengchao Zhang

We study the possibility of probing the scale of left-right symmetry breaking in the context of left-right symmetric models (LRSM). In LRSM, the right handed fermions transform as doublets under a newly introduced $SU(2)_R$ gauge symmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta

We investigate the cosmological phase transition dynamics in a supersymmetric left-right symmetric model based on the gauge group $SU(3)_C \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$ that addresses the strong CP problem through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Naoyuki Haba , Yasuhiro Shimizu , Toshifumi Yamada

A non-zero CP-violating $\theta$ parameter is treated in the domain model which assumes a cluster-like vacuum structure whose units are characterised in particular by a topological charge which is not necessarily an integer number. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Alex C. Kalloniatis , Sergei N. Nedelko

Domain walls can form after breakdown of a discrete symmetry induced by first-order phase transition, we study the heavy dark matter produced around the temperature of the phase transition that yields the breakdown of a $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Xin Deng , Xuewen Liu , Jing Yang , Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

In this paper, following the previous study, we evaluate the spectrum of gravitational wave background generated by domain walls which are produced if some discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken in the early universe. We apply two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

We study the evolution of domain wall networks and their phenomenological implications in a model of a real scalar $\chi$, where a $Z_2$-symmetry is slightly broken by a potential bias $V_{bias}$. It is demonstrated that the latter triggers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 E. Babichev , I. Dankovsky , D. Gorbunov , S. Ramazanov , A. Vikman

We reconsider a cosmological evolution of domain walls produced by spontaneous breaking of an approxime discrete symmetry. We show, that domain walls may never collapse even if the standard bound on the vacuum energy asymmetry is satisfied.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Dvali , Z. Tavartkiladze , J. Nanobashvili