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Gravitational waves are generated during first-order phase transitions, either by turbolence or by bubble collisions. If the transition takes place at temperatures of the order of the electroweak scale, the frequency of these gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Riccardo Apreda , Michele Maggiore , Alberto Nicolis , Antonio Riotto

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

In a vacuum first-order phase transition, gravitational waves are generated from collision of bubbles of the true vacuum. The spectrum from such collisions takes the form of a broken power law. We consider a toy model for such a phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniel Cutting , Elba Granados Escartin , Mark Hindmarsh , David J. Weir

During or towards the end of inflation, the Standard Model (SM) Higgs forms a condensate with a large amplitude. Following inflation, the condensate oscillates, decaying non-perturbatively into the rest of the SM species. The resulting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Daniel G. Figueroa , Juan García-Bellido , Francisco Torrentí

We study gravitational waves generated by the cosmological magnetic fields induced via bubble collisions during the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions. The magnetic field generation mechanisms considered here are based on the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tina Kahniashvili , Leonard Kisslinger , Trevor Stevens

We present a general method for computing the gravitational radiation arising from the motion of bubble walls or thin fluid shells in cosmological phase transitions. We discuss the application of this method to different wall kinematics. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Ariel Megevand , Federico Agustin Membiela

We introduce an approximation to calculate the gravitational radiation produced by the collision of true-vacuum bubbles that is simple enough to allow the simulation of a phase transition by the collision of hundreds of bubbles. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arthur Kosowsky , Michael S. Turner

We summarize the theoretical framework of gravitational wave (GW) production by bulk fluid motion induced by expanding broken-phase bubbles during a first-order phase transition. Using a locally stationary unequal-time correlator (UETC) to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Isak Stomberg , Alberto Roper Pol

We consider the stochastic background of gravity waves produced by first-order cosmological phase transitions from two types of sources: colliding bubbles and hydrodynamic turbulence. First we discuss the fluid mechanics of relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Michael S. Turner

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

A variety of mechanisms in the early Universe lead to the generation of gravitational waves (GWs). We introduce here a novel source of GWs generated by vacuum fluctuations after inflation. Given that gravitons are minimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Alina Mierna , Gabriele Perna , Sabino Matarrese , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

Physics beyond the Standard Model may give rise to first-order phase transitions proceeding via the nucleation of vacuum bubbles, whose subsequent collisions generate gravitational waves (GWs). Their detection would open the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Katarina Trailović

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

We calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves originated from strongly first order electroweak phase transition in the extended Higgs model with a real singlet field. In order to calculate the bubble nucleation rate, we perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Katsuya Hashino , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Pyungwon Ko , Toshinori Matsui

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

This paper studies gravitational waves in a dark matter model composed of three types of particles with distinct spins, along with a scalar field $\phi$ that mediates interactions between Standard Model particles and dark matter. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Mohammad Hossein Rahimi Abkenar , Ahmad Mohamadnejad , Reza Sepahvand

Gravitational wave (GW) predictions of cosmological phase transitions are almost invariably evaluated at either the nucleation or percolation temperature. We investigate the effect of the transition temperature choice on GW predictions, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Peter Athron , Lachlan Morris , Zhongxiu Xu

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

A fast-rolling axion can transfer its kinetic energy to a gauge field via the Chern-Simons coupling, leading to copious production of gauge quanta, which can act as a source of gravitational waves (GWs) with potentially observable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Kai-Ge Zhang , Jian-Feng He , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

In this paper we discuss some general aspects of the gravitational wave background arising from post-inflationary short-lasting cosmological events such as phase transitions. We concentrate on the physics which determines the shape and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Thomas Konstandin , Geraldine Servant