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Gravitational waves (GWs) produced during first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in the early universe provide a powerful probe of nonstandard cosmological histories. We study GW production from a FOPT ending a kination-dominated epoch in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Richard Casey , Katherine Freese , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

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

In the singlet Majoron model, we study cosmological phase transitions (PTs) and their resulting gravitational waves (GWs), in the two-field phase space, without freezing any of the field directions. We first calculate the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-14 Youping Wan , Batool Imtiaz , Yi-Fu Cai

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

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

The gravitational wave (GW) background produced at the cosmological chiral phase transition in a conformal extension of the standard model is studied. To obtain the bounce solution of coupled field equations we implement an iterative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Mayumi Aoki , Jisuke Kubo

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have reported evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background at nHz frequencies, possibly originating in the early Universe. We show that the spectral shape of the low-frequency (causality) tail of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 Gabriele Franciolini , Davide Racco , Fabrizio Rompineve

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

We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by domain walls (DWs) during inflation without forming a network. We numerically simulate the DW production caused by a second-order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-06 Haipeng An , Chen Yang

We study a possibility of a strong first-order phase transition (FOPT) taking place below the electroweak scale in the context of $U(1)_D$ gauge extension of the standard model. As pointed out recently by the NANOGrav collaboration,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-14 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Sin Kyu Kang

In the present thesis, the author reviews the physics of cosmological first-order phase transitions that may have occured shortly after the Big Bang. Such transitions proceed via the nucleation and expansion of true vacuum bubbles and give…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Moritz Breitbach

We search for a first-order phase transition (PT) gravitational wave (GW) signal from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Due to the large theoretical uncertainties, four GW energy spectral shapes from bubble and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo 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

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

We calculate the gravitational wave spectrum generated by sound waves during a cosmological phase transition, incorporating several advancements beyond the current state-of-the-art. Rather than relying on the bag model or similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Chi Tian , Xiao Wang , Csaba Balázs

First-order phase transitions (FOPTs) are ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Recently, models with no dimensionful parameters in the tree-level action have been attracting much attention because they can predict a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-28 Kiyoharu Kawana

Gravitational wave (GW) observations probe both a diffuse, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) as well as individual cataclysmic events such as the merger of two compact objects. The detection and description of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Eleanor Gleave , Andrew Jaffe

We have conducted a revised analysis of the first-order phase transition that is associated with symmetry breaking in a classically scale-invariant model that has been extended with a new $SU(2)$ gauge group. By incorporating recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Alexandros Karam , Maciej Kierkla , Bogumiła Świeżewska

We study a dark $SU(2)_D$ gauge extension of the standard model (SM) with the possibility of a strong first order phase transition (FOPT) taking place below the electroweak scale in the light of NANOGrav 12.5 yr data. As pointed out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Sin Kyu Kang

We explore the emissions of the Gravitational Waves (GWs) from a strong first-order ekectroweak phase transition. To this end, a dark matter model has been investigated in Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP) scenario, where the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-24 Madhurima Pandey , Avik Paul