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We study the detectability of the gravitational waves (GWs) from the Q-ball formation associated with the Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism, taking into account both of the dilution effect due to Q-ball domination and of finite temperature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Takeshi Chiba , Kohei Kamada , Masahide Yamaguchi

This review article is based on a seminar presented at the Higgs pairs workshop 2025. Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds can serve as probe of the diverse phenomenology encountered in beyond-Standard-Model scenarios featuring phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Chiara Caprini

Analyzing the records of Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational observatories, we found a permanent time-domain asymmetry inherent only to the signals of their gravitational detectors. Experiments with different periodic signals, Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander V. Kramarenko , Andrey V. Kramarenko

Gravitational waves (GWs) may be produced by various mechanisms in the early universe. In particular, if parity is violated, it may lead to the production of parity-violating GWs. In this paper, we focus on GWs on the scale of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

Long-lived gravitational wave (GW) transients have received interest in the last decade, as the sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo increases. Such signals, lasting between 10 and 1000s, can come from a variety of sources, including accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Adrian Macquet , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Nelson Christensen , Michael Coughlin

We study the impact of a running index $\alpha_t$ on the spectrum of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) over the whole range of frequency $(10^{-18}\sim 10^{10})$ Hz and reveal its implications in RGWs detections and in cosmology. Analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Ming-Lei Tong , Yang Zhang

We conducted three-dimensional lattice simulations to study the density perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs) during first-order phase transition (FOPT). We find that for phase transition strength $\alpha > 1$, the forward motion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Jintao Zou , Zhiqing Zhu , Zizhuo Zhao , Ligong Bian

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

Using a five-dimensional warped model including a scalar potential with an exponential behavior in the infrared, and strong back-reaction over the metric, we study the electroweak phase transition, and explore parameter regions that were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-28 Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mariano Quiros

We consider a holographic study of coupling dependent gravitational waves produced by the cosmic first order QCD phase transition at finite baryochemical potential. In the dual description, the first-order QCD phase transition corresponds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-09 M. Ahmadvand , K. Bitaghsir Fadafan , S. Rezapour

A new gauge singlet scalar field can undergo a strongly first-order phase transition (PT) leading to gravitational waves (GW) potentially observable at aLIGO and simultaneously stabilize the electroweak vacuum. aLIGO (O5) is potentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-16 Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Anupam Mazumdar , Graham White

First-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs), offering a unique probe of high-scale particle physics. The Left-Right Symmetric Model (LRSM), which restores parity symmetry at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 William Searle , Csaba Balázs , Yang Xiao , Yang Zhang

If the graviton possesses a non-zero charge $q_g$, gravitational waves (GW) originating from astrophysical sources would experience an additional time delay due to intergalactic magnetic fields. This would result in a modification of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-11 Sreejith Nair , Aditya Vijaykumar , Sudipta Sarkar

In this paper we explore the possibility of observable gravitational waves as a manifestation of the QCD axion dynamics. In particular, we focus on dynamical axion models which solve the strong CP problem, and include the confinement of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Djuna Croon , Rachel Houtz , Veronica Sanz

The current observational constraints still leave a substantial mass window $\sim [10^{-16},10^{-14}] \cup [10^{-13},10^{-12}] M_\odot$ for primordial black holes (PBHs) representing all of dark matter (DM) in our Universe. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang

We analyse the gravitational wave and low energy signatures of a Pati-Salam phase transition. For a Pati-Salam scale of $M_{PS} \sim 10^5$ GeV, we find a stochastic power spectrum within reach of the next generation of ground-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-21 Djuna Croon , Tomás E. Gonzalo , Graham White

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

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) collaboration has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic process affecting the 12.5 yr dataset of pulsar timing residuals. We show that the signal can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Nicklas Ramberg , Luca Visinelli

The original axion natural inflation model predicts a tensor-to-scalar ratio exceeding experimental limits. Conversely, in aligned axion inflation, inflation can proceed along trajectories emerging from near a saddle point of the two-field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Federico Greco

Many models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict a strong first-order phase transition (SFOPT) in the early Universe that leads to observable gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we propose a novel method for presenting and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-09 Tommi Alanne , Thomas Hugle , Moritz Platscher , Kai Schmitz