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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…

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We study the gravitational radiation produced by the collisions of bubble walls or thin fluid shells in cosmological phase transitions. Using the so-called envelope approximation, we obtain analytically the asymptotic behavior of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Ariel Megevand , Agustin Membiela

The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of such new physics. In particular, they could point to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Haipeng An , Boye Su , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang , Chen Yang

We revisit the calculation of the gravitational wave spectra generated in a classically scale-invariant $SU(2)$ gauge sector with a scalar field in the adjoint representation, as discussed by J.~Jaeckel, et al. The finite-temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-18 Da Huang , Bo-Qiang Lu

We summarize the theoretical framework of gravitational wave (GW) production by bulk fluid motion induced by expanding broken-phase bubbles during a first-order phase transition. Using a locally stationary unequal-time correlator (UETC) to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Isak Stomberg , Alberto Roper Pol

We consider gravitational wave production by bubble collisions during a cosmological first-order phase transition. In the literature, such spectra have been estimated by simulating the bubble dynamics, under so-called thin-wall and envelope…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Ryusuke Jinno , Masahiro Takimoto

We study domain walls which can be created in the Standard Model under the assumption that it is valid up to very high energy scales. We focus on domain walls interpolating between the physical electroweak vacuum and the global minimum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-26 Tomasz Krajewski , Zygmunt Lalak , Marek Lewicki , Paweł Olszewski

We compute the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum sourced by sound waves produced during a first-order phase transition in the radiation-dominated epoch. The correlator of the velocity field is evaluated in accordance with the sound shell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-26 Alberto Roper Pol , Simona Procacci , Chiara Caprini

We investigate first order phase transitions arising from hidden sectors which are in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model bath in the Early Universe. Focusing on two simplified scenarios, an higgsed U(1) and a two scalar singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-12 Aleksandr Azatov , Daniele Barducci , Francesco Sgarlata

Gravitational waves are a potential direct probe for the multi-dimensional flow during the first second of core-collapse supernova explosions. Here we outline the structure of the predicted gravitational wave signal from neutrino-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-16 Bernhard Müller

We investigate the gravitational wave background from a first order phase transition in a matter-dominated universe, and show that it has a unique feature from which important information about the properties of the phase transition and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Gabriela Barenboim , Wan-Il Park

The spectrum of thermal gravitational waves is obtained by including the high frequency thermal gravitons created from extra-dimensional effect and is a new feature of the spectrum. The amplitude and spectral energy density of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-21 Basem Ghayour , P K Suresh

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

We study gravitational waves generated by the cosmological magnetic fields induced via bubble collisions during the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions. The magnetic field generation mechanisms considered here are based on the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tina Kahniashvili , Leonard Kisslinger , Trevor Stevens

Gravitational waves potentially represent our only direct probe of the universe when it was less than one second old. In particular, first-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate a stochastic background of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tina Kahniashvili , Arthur Kosowsky , Grigol Gogoberidze , Yurii Maravin

We investigate the gravitational wave background induced by the first order scalar perturbations in the curvaton models. We consider the quadratic and axion-like curvaton potential which can generate the blue-tilted power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-09 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Shuichiro Yokoyama

In this paper we consider an extension of the Standard Model(SM) with additional gauge singlets which exhibits a strong first order phase transition. Due to this first order phase transition in the early universe gravitational waves are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Mina Saeedhoseini , Ali Tofighi

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

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

A self-gravitating cylindrical domain wall is considered as an example of non-spherical wall to clarify the interaction between a domain wall and gravitational waves. We consider the time evolution from a momentarily static initial…

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