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We study the production of gravitational waves from cosmic domain walls created during phase transition in the early universe. We investigate the process of formation and evolution of domain walls by running three dimensional lattice…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

We investigate the gravitational wave spectrum resulted from the cosmological first-order phase transition. We compare two models; one is a scalar field model without gravitation, while the other is a scalar field model with gravitation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-12 Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Dong-han Yeom , Lu Yin

The walls of bubbles in a first-order phase transition can propagate either as detonations, with a velocity larger than the speed of sound, or deflagrations, which are subsonic. We calculate the gravitational radiation that is produced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ariel Megevand

Gravitational wave production from bubble collisions was calculated in the early nineties using numerical simulations. In this paper, we present an alternative analytic estimate, relying on a different treatment of stochasticity. In our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-13 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Geraldine Servant

On the frequency-amplitude plane, Gravitational Waves (GWs) from cosmic strings show a flat plateau at higher frequencies due to the string loop dynamics in standard radiation dominated post-inflationary epoch. The spectrum may show an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Rome Samanta , Satyabrata Datta

We review several cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves accessible to direct-detection experiments, with a special emphasis on those backgrounds due to first-order phase transitions and networks of cosmic (super-)strings. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Pierre Binétruy , Alejandro Bohé , Chiara Caprini , Jean-François Dufaux

We conduct large scale numerical simulations of gravitational wave production at a first order vacuum phase transition. We find a power law for the gravitational wave power spectrum at high wavenumber which falls off as $k^{-1.5}$ rather…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Daniel Cutting , Mark Hindmarsh , David J. Weir

Out-of-equilibrium fermions can be created in the early Universe by non-perturbative parametric effects, both at preheating or during the thermal era. An anisotropic stress is developed in the fermion distribution, acting as a source of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel G. Figueroa , Tuukka Meriniemi

The cosmic string contributes to our understanding and revelation of the fundamental structure and evolutionary patterns of the universe, unifying our knowledge of the cosmos and unveiling new physical laws and phenomena. Therefore, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Bo-Rui Wang , Jin Li

Cosmological B-L breaking is a natural and testable mechanism to generate the initial conditions of the hot early universe. If B-L is broken at the grand unification scale, the false vacuum phase drives hybrid inflation, ending in tachyonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Wilfried Buchmuller , Valerie Domcke , Kohei Kamada , Kai Schmitz

Cosmic strings are generic cosmological predictions of many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, such as a $U(1)^\prime$ symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe or remnants of superstring theory. Unlike…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Yanou Cui , Marek Lewicki , David E. Morrissey , James D. Wells

The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of such new physics. In particular, they could point to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Haipeng An , Boye Su , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang , Chen Yang

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

We compute the expected strain power spectrum and energy density parameter of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) created by a network of long cosmic strings evolving during the whole cosmic history. As opposed to other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Disrael Camargo Neves da Cunha , Christophe Ringeval , François R. Bouchet

If cosmic strings are formed in the early universe, their associated loops emit gravitational waves during the whole cosmic history and contribute to the stochastic gravitational wave background at all frequencies. We provide a new estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Christophe Ringeval , Teruaki Suyama

Phase transitions in the early universe can readily create an observable stochastic gravitational wave background. We show that such a background necessarily contains anisotropies analogous to those of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-06 Michael Geller , Anson Hook , Raman Sundrum , Yuhsin Tsai

We do a complete calculation of the stochastic gravitational wave background to be expected from cosmic strings. We start from a population of string loops taken from simulations, smooth these by Lorentzian convolution as a model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Ken D. Olum

In this study, we investigate the scenario in which the stochastic signal arises from primordial gravitational waves. Within this framework, we consider two distinct possibilities: one in which the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jun Li , Guanghai Guo , Pengfei Yan

We discuss gravitational waves in an electroweakly interacting vector dark matter model. In the model, the electroweak gauge symmetry is extended to SU(2)$_0 \times$ SU(2)$_1 \times$SU(2)$_2 \times$ U(1)$_Y$ and spontaneously broken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Tomohiro Abe , Katsuya Hashino

Metric perturbations affect the phase of gravitational waves as they propagate through the inhomogeneous universe. This effect causes Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds (SGWBs) to lose any phase coherence that may have been present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-06 Aoibheann Margalit , Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni