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We propose a novel mechanism where a first-order phase transition modulates the decay rate of a massive field. This modulation, even if the scalar field has negligible energy density, subsequently generates an observable stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

We study the production, spectrum and detectability of gravitational waves in models of the early Universe where first order phase transitions occur during inflation. We consider all relevant sources. The self-consistency of the scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-16 Diego Chialva

Within a recently proposed classically conformal model, in which the generation of neutrino masses is linked to spontaneous scale symmetry breaking, we investigate the associated phase transition and find it to be of strong first order with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-13 Vedran Brdar , Alexander J. Helmboldt , Jisuke Kubo

Cosmological first order phase transitions are typically associated with physics beyond the Standard Model, and thus of great theoretical and observational interest. Models of phase transitions where the energy is mostly converted to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-22 Matthew R. Buckley , Peizhi Du , Nicolas Fernandez , Mitchell J. Weikert

A stochastic background of gravitational waves can be generated during a cosmological first order phase transition, at least by two distinct mechanisms: collisions of true vacuum bubbles and turbulence in the cosmic fluid. I compare these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Nicolis

If there was a first order phase transition in the early universe, there should be an associated stochastic background of gravitational waves. In this paper, we point out that the characteristic frequency of the spectrum due to phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christophe Grojean , Geraldine Servant

In many particle physics models, domain wall can form during the phase transition process after discrete symmetry breaking. We study the scenario within a complex singlet extended Standard Model framework, where a strongly first order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Ruiyu Zhou , Jing Yang , Ligong Bian

First order phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a stochastic background of gravitational waves. A hypothetical first order electroweak phase transition is particularly interesting in this respect, since the signal is in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chiara Caprini

Just as big bang nucleosynthesis allows us to probe the expansion rate when the temperature of the universe was around 1 MeV, the measurement of gravity waves from electroweak scale first order phase transitions may allow us to probe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Daniel J. H. Chung , Peng Zhou

The dynamics of weak vs. strong first order phase transitions is investigated numerically for 2+1 dimensional scalar field models. It is argued that the change from a weak to a strong transition is itself a (second order) phase transition,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Marcelo Gleiser

We compute the gravitational wave spectra from strongly supercooled first-order phase transitions, explicitly incorporating the evolution of the background metric across the transition from thermal inflation to radiation domination. We find…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

We present a comprehensive analysis of high-temperature vacuum decay and the resulting stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background within the framework of general scale-invariant models. The effective potential is constructed to include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

Phase transitions induced by high temperatures and strong magnetic fields are investigated in the Standard model. The consistent effective potential including the one-loop and ring diagram contributions is calculated and investigated for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Skalozub , M. Bordag

Thermal corrections in classically conformal models typically induce a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, thereby resulting in a stochastic gravitational wave background that could be detectable at gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Marzola , Antonio Racioppi , Ville Vaskonen

We investigate the curvature perturbations induced by the randomness of the quantum tunneling process during cosmological first-order phase transitions (PTs) and for the first time ultilize curvature perturbations to constrain the PT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jing Liu , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang

We investigate the cosmological phase transition dynamics in a supersymmetric left-right symmetric model based on the gauge group $SU(3)_C \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$ that addresses the strong CP problem through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Naoyuki Haba , Yasuhiro Shimizu , Toshifumi Yamada

One-dimensional model of a system where first-order phase transition occurs is examined in the present paper. It is shown that basic properties of the phenomenon, such as a well defined temperature of transition, are caused both by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-29 Marcin Ostrowski

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 study first-order electroweak phase transitions nonperturbatively, assuming any particles beyond the Standard Model are sufficiently heavy to be integrated out at the phase transition. Utilising high temperature dimensional reduction, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-17 Oliver Gould , Sinan Güyer , Kari Rummukainen

We constrain a primordial magnetic field (PMF) generated during a phase transition (PT) using the big bang nucleosynthesis bound on the relativistic energy density. The amplitude of the PMF at large scales is determined by the shape of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-04 Tina Kahniashvili , Alexander G. Tevzadze , Bharat Ratra