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We discuss the effects of cosmic phase transition on the spectrum of primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation. The energy density of the scalar condensation responsible for the phase transition may become sizable at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Ryusuke Jinno , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

Cosmological phase transitions are a frequent phenomenon in particle physics models beyond the Standard Model, and the corresponding gravitational wave signal offers a key probe of new physics in the early Universe. Depending on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Giulio Barni , Simone Blasi , Eric Madge , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

Theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking predict a strong first order cosmological phase transition: we compute the resulting signals, primordial black holes and gravitational waves. These theories employ one SM-neutral scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Martín Arteaga , Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia

We investigate the potential stochastic gravitational waves from first-order electroweak phase transitions in a model with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter and two Higgs doublets. The dark matter candidate can naturally evade direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Zhao Zhang , Chengfeng Cai , Xue-Min Jiang , Yi-Lei Tang , Zhao-Huan Yu , Hong-Hao 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 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

An injection of energy into the early Universe on a given characteristic length scale will result in turbulent motions of the primordial plasma. We calculate the stochastic background of gravitational radiation arising from a period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Arthur Kosowsky , Andrew Mack , Tinatin Kahniashvili

In theories of supersymmetry breaking, it is often the case that there is more than one metastable vacuum. First-order phase transitions among such metastable vacua may generate a stochastic background of gravitational waves, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-18 Nathaniel J. Craig

We investigate the properties of a cosmological scenario which undergoes a gravitational phase transition at late times. In this scenario, the Universe evolves according to general relativity in the standard, hot Big Bang picture until a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert R. Caldwell , William Komp , Leonard Parker , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

We study the gravitational wave phenomenology in models of solitosynthesis. In such models, a first order phase transition is precipitated by a period in which non-topological solitons with a conserved global charge (Q-balls) accumulate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Djuna Croon , Alexander Kusenko , Anupam Mazumdar , Graham White

Motivated by cosmological first-order phase transitions we examine the nucleation and evolution of vacuum bubbles in non-vacuum environments. Non-standard backgrounds can be relevant in the context of rapid tunneling processes on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-15 Aleksandar Rakic , Dennis Simon , Julian Adamek , Jens C. Niemeyer

We undertake a careful analysis of stochastic gravitational wave production from cosmological phase transitions in an expanding universe, studying both a standard radiation as well as a matter dominated history. We analyze in detail the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-07 Huai-Ke Guo , Kuver Sinha , Daniel Vagie , Graham White

The detection of a stochastic Gravitational Wave (GW) background sourced by a cosmological phase transition would allow us to see the early Universe from a completely new perspective, illuminating aspects of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Maciej Kierkla , Giorgio Laverda , Marek Lewicki , Andreas Mantziris , Matteo Piani , Javier Rubio , Mateusz Zych

Cold Dark Matter particles may interact with ordinary particles through a dark photon, which acquires a mass thanks to a spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism. We discuss a dark photon model in which the scalar singlet associated to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Andrea Addazi , Antonino Marciano

It is currently believed that the Standard Model is an effective low energy theory which in principle may contain higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators. These operators may modify the standard model Higgs potential in many ways,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Eric Greenwood , Pascal M. Vaudrevange

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

We show that quantum fluctuations of an expanding phase transition bubble give rise to gravitational wave (GW) emission, even when considering a single bubble, without bubble collisions or plasma effects. The ratio of GW energy to the total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Kfir Blum , Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Cosmological first-order phase transition (FOPT) sources the stochastic gravitational wave background (SWGB) through bubble collisions, sound waves, and turbulence. So far, most studies on the fluid profile of an expanding bubble are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Ryusuke Jinno , Jun'ya Kume

We explore the production of gravitational waves (GW) resulting from a first-order phase transition (FOPT) in a non-minimally coupled `Dark Higgs Inflation' model. Utilizing a dark sector scalar field as the inflaton, we demonstrate how…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-21 Jörn Kersten , Seong Chan Park , Yeji Park , Juhoon Son , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

We reexamine the production of gravitational waves by bubble collisions during a first-order phase transition. The spectrum of the gravitational radiation is determined by numerical simulations using the "envelope approximation". We find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-20 Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin