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In this paper, we investigate the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a first-order QCD confinement-deconfinement phase transition under external magnetic field from holography. We analyze the GWs spectra across both hard wall and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Man-Man Sun , Man-Li Tian , Zhou-Run Zhu

Domain wall (DW) networks may have formed in the early universe following the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry. Notably, several particle physics models predict the existence of current-carrying DWs, which can capture and store…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Anish Ghoshal , Yu Hamada

We investigate the gravitational wave spectrum resulted from the cosmological first-order phase transition. We compare two models; one is a scalar field model without gravitation, while the other is a scalar field model with gravitation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-12 Bum-Hoon Lee , Wonwoo Lee , Dong-han Yeom , Lu Yin

We study the observable implications of an incomplete first order phase transition during inflation. In such a phase transition, the nucleated bubbles do not percolate and instead are continuously produced until the onset of reheating. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Joel Barir , Michael Geller , Chen Sun , Tomer Volansky

We summarise the physics of first-order phase transitions in the early universe, and the possible ways in which they might come about. We then focus on gravitational waves, emphasising general qualitative features of stochastic backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Djuna Croon , David J. Weir

We discuss a new source of gravitational waves (GWs) from first-order phase transitions. The collisions of bubbles of the new phase can efficiently produce particles that couple to the background field undergoing the transition, thereby…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski , Kentaro Kasai , Bibhushan Shakya

A model for the acoustic production of gravitational waves at a first order phase transition is presented. The source of gravitational radiation is the sound waves generated by the explosive growth of bubbles of the stable phase. The model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mark Hindmarsh

We investigate the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the electroweak phase transition. We consider extensions of the Standard Model which can give very strongly first-order phase transitions, such that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

Cosmic strings and first-order phase transition are two main sources for the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In this work, we study the stochastic gravitational wave radiation from cosmic string which is formed after the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-25 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

We review the production of gravitational waves by an electroweak first order phase transition. The resulting signal is a good candidate for detection at next-generation gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA. Detection of such a source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 David J. Weir

We calculate the gravitational wave spectrum generated by sound waves during a cosmological phase transition, incorporating several advancements beyond the current state-of-the-art. Rather than relying on the bag model or similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Chi Tian , Xiao Wang , Csaba Balázs

We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase transition at the electroweak symmetry breaking, which is required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. Such spectra are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-16 Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Toshinori Matsui

We revisit the production of gravitational waves from unstable domain walls analyzing their spectrum by the use of field theoretic lattice simulations with grid size $1024^3$, which is larger than the previous study. We have recognized that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

We consider the stochastic background of gravity waves produced by first-order cosmological phase transitions from two types of sources: colliding bubbles and hydrodynamic turbulence. First we discuss the fluid mechanics of relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Marc Kamionkowski , Arthur Kosowsky , Michael S. Turner

Domain walls can form after breakdown of a discrete symmetry induced by first-order phase transition, we study the heavy dark matter produced around the temperature of the phase transition that yields the breakdown of a $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Xin Deng , Xuewen Liu , Jing Yang , Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

We discuss the gravitational wave background generated by primordial density perturbations evolving during the radiation era. At second-order in a perturbative expansion, density fluctuations produce gravitational waves. We calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kishore N. Ananda , Chris Clarkson , David Wands

Gravitational waves are generated during first-order phase transitions, either by turbolence or by bubble collisions. If the transition takes place at temperatures of the order of the electroweak scale, the frequency of these gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Riccardo Apreda , Michele Maggiore , Alberto Nicolis , Antonio Riotto

We study the generation of gravitational waves in the electroweak phase transition. We consider a few extensions of the Standard Model, namely, the addition of scalar singlets, the minimal supersymmetric extension, and the addition of TeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

We study the spectrum of gravitational waves produced by a first order phase transition in a hidden sector that is colder than the visible sector. In this scenario, bubbles of the hidden sector vacuum can be nucleated through either thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Malcolm Fairbairn , Edward Hardy , Alastair Wickens