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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

In this paper, we investigate the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a first-order QCD confinement-deconfinement phase transition under external magnetic field from holography. We analyze the GWs spectra across both hard wall and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Man-Man Sun , Man-Li Tian , Zhou-Run Zhu

A cosmic first-order phase transition (FOPT) occurring at MeV-scale provides an attractive explanation for the nano-Hertz gravitational wave (GW) background indicated by the recent pulsar timing array data from the NANOGrav, CPTA, EPTA and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Shao-Ping Li , Ke-Pan Xie

Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves (GWs) from the pre-BBN era offer a unique opportunity to probe the universe beyond what has already been achieved with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). If the source is short in duration,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-13 Joshua Berger , Amit Bhoonah , Biswajit Padhi

A conservative constraint on the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astronomical sources is dominated by the gravitational fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Jun-Jie Wei , Xi-Long Fan , Peter Mészáros , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Among various scenarios of baryon asymmetry of the Universe, electroweak baryogenesis is directly connected with physics of the Higgs sector. We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-24 Toshinori Matsui

We investigate the capability of the Taiji space-based gravitational wave observatory to detect stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds produced by first-order phase transitions in the early universe. Using a comprehensive simulation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Fan Huang , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

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 electroweak phase transition dynamics with a three-dimensional standard model effective field theory under a gauge-invariant approach. We observe that, at the two-loop level, the phase transition parameters obtained with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Renhui Qin , Ligong Bian

Since gravitational waves (GWs) propagate freely through a perfect fluid, coalescing compact binary systems as standard sirens allow to measure the luminosity distance directly and provide distance measurements unaffected by the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Shuaibo Geng , Shuo Cao , Tonghua Liu , Marek Biesiada , Jingzhao Qi , Yuting Liu , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational waves (GWs) can resonate with magnetic fields through the Gertsenshtein-Zeldovich effect, producing electromagnetic signals at the same frequency. In pulsar magnetospheres, this conversion may yield a faint radio-band signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Wei Hong , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang , Shi-Yu Li , Pei Wang

We show that helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition generates circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The characteristic frequency of these GWs for an extreme case of the phase transition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Grigol Gogoberidze , Bharat Ratra , ;

The type-II seesaw model is a possible candidate for simultaneously explaining non-vanishing neutrino masses and the observed baryon asymmetry of the Universe. In this work, we study in detail the pattern of phase transition and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian , Yong Du

In broad classes of inflationary models the period of accelerated expansion is followed by fragmentation of the inflaton scalar field into localized, long-lived and massive oscillon excitations. We demonstrate that matter-dominance of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-05 Kaloian D. Lozanov , Volodymyr Takhistov

We consider gravitational wave (GW) production during preheating in hybrid inflation models where an axion-like waterfall field couples to Abelian gauge fields. Based on a linear analysis, we find that the GW signal from such models can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 Yanou Cui , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

We use data on the local 3-dimensional galaxy distribution for studying the statistics of the detection rates of gravitational waves (GW) coming from supernova explosions. We consider both tensor and scalar gravitational waves which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yu. V. Baryshev , G. Paturel

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Gravitational waves (GWs) are a new avenue of observing our Universe. So far, we have seen them in the ~10-100 Hz range, and there are hints that we might soon detect them in the nanohertz regime. Multiple efforts are underway to access GWs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Kris Pardo , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré , Yijun Wang

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will open the millihertz band to survey ultra-compact binaries (UCBs). \textit{Verification binaries} (VBs) is a key to verifying the performance of space-based GW detectors because its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Zi-Heng Yu , Sen Yang , Liangliang Ren , Shun-Jia Huang

If the black holes detected by LIGO/VIRGO are primordial black holes (PBHs) sourcing from a large primordial curvature perturbation on small scales, the corresponding induced gravitational waves (GWs) would peak at nanohertz that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-28 Rong-Gen Cai , Shi Pi , Shao-Jiang Wang , Xing-Yu Yang
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