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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

To realize first-order electroweak phase transition, it is necessary to generate a barrier in the thermal Higgs potential, which is usually triggered by scalar degree of freedom. We instead investigate phase transition patterns in pure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Qing-Hong Cao , Katsuya Hashino , Xu-Xiang Li , Zhe Ren , Jiang-Hao Yu

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

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

We discuss first-order electroweak phase transition in models with extended Higgs sectors for the case with relatively heavy additional scalar bosons. We first show that, by the combination of the sphaleron decoupling condition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-31 Shinya Kanemura , Masanori Tanaka

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

At the extreme densities in neutron stars, a phase transition to deconfined quark matter is anticipated. Yet masses, radii and tidal deformabilities offer only indirect measures of a first-order phase transition, requiring many detections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 A. R. Counsell , F. Gittins , N. Andersson , I. Tews

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

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

In an extension of the Standard Model with a scalar color octet, the possibility of the strongly first-order electroweak phase transition is studied, by examining the finite-temperature effective Higgs potential at the one-loop level. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 S. W. Ham , Seong-a Shim , S. K. Oh

The dynamics of the electroweak phase transition in the early universe has profound implications for cosmology and particle physics. We systematically study the steady-state dynamics of bubble walls in scenarios where the transition is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Carlo Branchina , Angela Conaci , Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose

By assuming the existence of the sequential fourth generation to the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM), we study the possibility of a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition. We find that there is a parameter region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. W. Ham , S. K. OH , D. Son

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

A first-order Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT) could explain the observed baryon-antibaryon asymmetry and its dynamics could yield a detectable gravitational wave signature, while the underlying physics would be within the reach of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-20 José Eliel Camargo-Molina , Rikard Enberg , Johan Löfgren

We study the electroweak phase transition in the alignment limit of the CP-conserving two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) of Type I and Type II. The effective potential is evaluated at one-loop, where the thermal potential includes Daisy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Jérémy Bernon , Ligong Bian , Yun Jiang

Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions are novel probes of fundamental physics, making their precise calculation essential for revealing various mysteries of the early Universe. In this work we propose a framework that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Xiao Wang , Chi Tian , Csaba Balázs

The discovery of the Higgs boson by the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS has marked a milestone for particle physics. Yet, there are still many open questions that cannot be answered within the Standard Model (SM). For example, the generation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-28 P. Basler , M. Krause , M. Muhlleitner , J. Wittbrodt , A. Wlotzka

We argue that extensions of the Standard Model (SM) with a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition generically predict significant deviations of the Higgs couplings to gluons, photons, and Z bosons from their SM values. Precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrey Katz , Maxim Perelstein

I discuss the generation of a stochastic background of gravitational waves during a first order phase transition. I present simple general arguments which explain the main features of the gravitational wave spectrum like the $k^3$ power law…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-02 Ruth Durrer

We study two possible cosmological consequences of a first-order phase transition in the temperature range of 1 GeV to $10^3$ TeV: the generation of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) within the sensitivity of the Laser…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 A. Roper Pol , A. Neronov , C. Caprini , T. Boyer , D. Semikoz