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Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Jonathan Gräfe , Falk Adamietz , Ralf Schützhold

Cosmological first-order phase transitions are a well-motivated source of stochastic gravitational waves (GWs), but most predictions are made based on the highly idealized model of perfectly spherical vacuum bubbles, neglecting thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-23 Ligong Bian , Guangshang Chen , Song Li , Hongxin Wang , Yang Xiao , Jin Min Yang , Yang Zhang

Particle phase transitions in the early universe including electroweak and grand unification ones are well-studied subjects. We point out that there are new possible particle phase transitions around inflation. Those new inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Sichun Sun

We have performed the first 3-dimensional simulations of strong first-order thermal phase transitions in the early Universe. For deflagrations, we find that the rotational component of the fluid velocity increases as the transition strength…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-21 Daniel Cutting , Mark Hindmarsh , David J. Weir

This contribution is divided in two parts. The first part provides a text-book level introduction to gravitational radiation. The key concepts required for a discussion of gravitational-wave physics are introduced. In particular, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Nils Andersson , Kostas D Kokkotas

We consider the possibility of a gravitational wave signal in an asymmetric dark matter model. In this model a generative sector produces both the baryon asymmetry and a dark matter asymmetry in a strong first-order phase transtion. Bubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Iason Baldes

Gravitational waves have become an irreplaceable tool for exploring the post-inflationary universe. Their cosmological and astrophysical origins have been attracting numerous attention. In this Letter, we point out a novel source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Shinya Kanemura , Kunio Kaneta

Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

We study the production of relic gravitational waves (GWs) in turbulent hypermagnetic fields (HMFs) in the symmetric phase of the early universe before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT). The noise of HMFs is modeled by the analog of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-13 Maxim Dvornikov

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 study gravitational waves generated by bubble expansion created during the Cosmological Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT). The energy radiated via gravitational waves is produced by the stress-energy tensor created by the magnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Leonard S. Kisslinger

Out-of-equilibrium fermions can be created in the early Universe by non-perturbative parametric effects, both at preheating or during the thermal era. An anisotropic stress is developed in the fermion distribution, acting as a source of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel G. Figueroa , Tuukka Meriniemi

The gravitational wave window onto the universe is expected to open in ~ 5 years, when ground-based detectors make the first detections in the high-frequency regime. Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime produced by the motions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Joan Centrella

We investigate how the production of gravitational waves (GWs) is affected by the GW velocity $(c_T)$ during preheating after inflation. For instance, we simulate the production of GWs after $\lambda\phi^4$ chaotic inflation, and find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Ke Wang , Qing-Guo Huang

The first-order electroweak phase transition in the early universe could occur in multiple steps leading to specific multi-peaked signatures in the primordial gravitational wave (GW) spectrum. We argue that these signatures are generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-25 António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik , Thibault Vieu

The bubble wall velocity in an electroweak first order phase transition is a key quantity both for electroweak baryogenesis and for the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves that may be probed in the future through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Jose M. No

A stochastic background of gravitational radiation from cosmological processes in the very early Universe is potentially detectable. We review the gravitational radiation which may arise from cosmological phase transitions, covering both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Arthur Kosowsky , Andrew Mack , Tinatin Kahniashvili

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

It is well-known that gravitational waves undergo no absorption or dissipation when traversing through a perfect fluid. However, in the presence of a viscous fluid, GWs transfer energy to the fluid medium. In this paper, we present a review…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nigel T. Bishop , Vishnu Kakkat , Amos S. Kubeka , Monos Naidoo , Petrus J. van der Walt

Multi-peaked spectra of the primordial gravitational waves are considered as a phenomenologically relevant source of information about the dynamics of sequential phase transitions in the early Universe. In particular, such signatures trace…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik