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We explore the prospects of probing the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (CxSM) with gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition. The study establishes a connection of the scalar potential parameters, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Qingyuan Liang , Ligong Bian , Huai-Ke Guo , Yongcheng Wu

Gravitational Waves (GWs) have been detected in the $\sim$100 Hz and nHz bands, but most of the gravitational spectrum remains unobserved. A variety of detector concepts have been proposed to expand the range of observable frequencies. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-03 Sebastian Baum , Zachary Bogorad , Peter W. Graham

Axion inflation is a well-motivated model of cosmic inflation with a rich phenomenology. The abundant production of gauge fields during axion inflation notably sources a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background signal, which nourishes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves (SIGWs), second-order tensor modes sourced by first-order scalar fluctuations in General Relativity (GR), are expected to contribute to the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) potentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Anjali Abirami Kugarajh , Marisol Traforetti , Andrea Maselli , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

We study a scenario where the Standard Model is extended by a SU(2) gauge group in the dark sector. The three associated dark gauge bosons are stabilised via a custodial symmetry triggered by an additional dark SU(2) scalar doublet, thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Nico Benincasa , Luigi Delle Rose , Luca Panizzi , Maimoona Razzaq , Savio Urzetta

We investigate the gravitational waves (GWs) at low frequencies produced by neutrinos that are emitted anisotropically from the proto-neutron star (PNS) during its cooling phase that lasts about a minute. We first give a formulation based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-28 Lei Fu , Shoichi Yamada

Pulsar timing arrays aim to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). A background of GWs modulates pulsar arrival times and manifests as a stochastic process, common to all pulsars, with a signature spatial correlation. Here we…

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments such as NANOGrav and PPTA recently reported evidence of a gravitational wave (GW) background at nano-Hz frequency band. This signal can originate from scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yiming Liu , Sichun Sun

We propose direct tests of very high energy first-order phase transitions, which are elusive to collider physics, deploying the gravitational waves measurements. We show that first-order phase transitions lying into a large window of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-09 Andrea Addazi , Antonino Marciano , Roman Pasechnik

The physical mechanisms responsible for pulsar timing glitches are thought to excite quasi-normal mode oscillations in their parent neutron star that couple to gravitational wave emission. In August 2006, a timing glitch was observed in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , J. Abadie , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , R. Adhikari , P. Ajith , B. Allen , G. Allen , E. Amador Ceron , R. S. Amin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , M. A. Arain , M. Araya , Y. Aso , S. Aston , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , S. Babak , P. Baker , S. Ballmer , D. Barker , B. Barr , P. Barriga , L. Barsotti , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , M. Bastarrika , B. Behnke , M. Benacquista , M. F. Bennett , J. Betzwieser , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , R. Biswas , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , R. Bondarescu , R. Bork , M. Born , S. Bose , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , D. O. Bridges , M. Brinkmann , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , S. Buchner , A. Bullington , A. Buonanno , O. Burmeister , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , J. Cain , J. B. Camp , J. Cannizzo , K. C. Cannon , J. 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Taylor , K. A. Thorne , K. S. Thorne , A. Thüring , C. Titsler , K. V. Tokmakov , C. Torres , C. I. Torrie , G. Traylor , M. Trias , L. Turner , D. Ugolini , K. Urbanek , H. Vahlbruch , M. Vallisneri , C. Van Den Broeck , M. V. van der Sluys , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , R. Vaulin , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , P. J. Veitch , C. Veltkamp , A. Villar , C. Vorvick , S. P. Vyachanin , S. J. Waldman , L. Wallace , A. Wanner , R. L. Ward , P. Wei , M. Weinert , A. J. Weinstein , R. Weiss , L. Wen , S. Wen , P. Wessels , M. West , T. Westphal , K. Wette , J. T. Whelan , S. E. Whitcomb , B. F. Whiting , C. Wilkinson , P. A. Willems , H. R. Williams , L. Williams , B. Willke , I. Wilmut , L. Winkelmann , W. Winkler , C. C. Wipf , A. G. Wiseman , G. Woan , R. Wooley , J. Worden , I. Yakushin , H. Yamamoto , K. Yamamoto , D. Yeaton-Massey , S. Yoshida , M. Zanolin , L. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , N. Zotov , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig

Pulsars are very stable clocks in space which have many applications to problems in physics and astrophysics. Observations of double-neutron-star binary systems have given the first observational evidence for the existence of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-22 R. N. Manchester

In this paper, we analyze parity-violating effects in the propagation of gravitational waves (GWs). For this purpose, we adopt a newly proposed parametrized post-Einstenian (PPE) formalism, which encodes modified gravity corrections to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-05 Matteo Califano , Rocco D'Agostino , Daniele Vernieri

Primordial density perturbations in the radiation-dominated era of the early Universe are expected to generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) due to nonlinear mode coupling. In this \emph{Letter}, we report on a search for such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Teruaki Suyama , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Parameswaran Ajith

We investigate the stochastic gravitational waves background arising from the first-order QCD chiral phase transition, considering three distinct sources: bubble collisions, sound waves, and fluid turbulence. Within the framework of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Xu Han , Guoyun Shao

In this work, we show that a large class of models with a composite dark sector undergo a strong first order phase transition in the early universe, which could lead to a detectable gravitational wave signal. We summarise the basic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-04 Pedro Schwaller

Data collected by the GEO600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939+2134 at twice its rotation frequency. Two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , B. Abbott

We investigate the possibility of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition during the early universe within the framework of the gauged two-Higgs doublet model (G2HDM) and explore its detectability through stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Van Que Tran , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We discuss gravitational waves in an electroweakly interacting vector dark matter model. In the model, the electroweak gauge symmetry is extended to SU(2)$_0 \times$ SU(2)$_1 \times$SU(2)$_2 \times$ U(1)$_Y$ and spontaneously broken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-14 Tomohiro Abe , Katsuya Hashino

We simultaneously study gravitational waves (GWs) and free axions emitted from axionic string-wall networks in the early universe using advanced 3D lattice simulations. Our simulations start before the Peccei-Quinn phase transition and end…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Yang Li , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Shu

We study the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) during a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) using the recently introduced Higgsless approach to numerically simulate the fluid motion induced by the PT. We present for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Alberto Roper Pol , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg