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Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

We consider a particle dark matter model by extending the scalar sector of the Standard Model by an additional SU(2) scalar doublet which is made "inert" (and stable) by imposing a discrete $Z_2$ symmetry under which the additional scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-14 Avik Paul , Biswajit Banerjee , Debasish Majumdar

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

We explore gravitational-wave (GW) signatures from a strong first-order phase transition in a non-Abelian dark sector, which naturally gives rise to vector dark matter. We consider a general class of models featuring a new dark gauge sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Alexander Belyaev , Mårten Bertenstam , João Gonçalves , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik , Nakorn Thongyoi

In recent years, an increasing number of studies have focused on using gravitational waves to explore axions and the dynamics of Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking at high energy scales in the early universe. To accurately quantify the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Aidi Yang , Fa Peng Huang

We study the gravitational waves produced by the collision of the bubbles as a probe for the cosmological first order QCD phase transition, considering heavy static quarks. Using AdS/QCD and the correspondence between a first order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 M. Ahmadvand , K. Bitaghsir Fadafan

The thermodynamics of the $SU(4)$ gauge theory with a single flavor of fundamental quarks is analyzed on the lattice with dynamical fermion simulations, which is the low-energy sector of a realistic, strongly-interacting dark matter model…

The physics of the dark sector has remained one of the controversial areas of modern cosmology at present and hence it naturally attracts massive attention to the scientific community. With the developments of the astronomical data, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino , Bin Wang , Anzhong Wang

In a wide class of new physics models, there exist scalar fields that obtain vacuum expectation values of high energy scales. We study the possibility that the standard model Higgs field has experienced first order phase transition at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-23 Ryusuke Jinno , Kazunori Nakayama , Masahiro Takimoto

One of the simplest models that allows for an electroweak (EW) strong first order phase transition (SFOPT) while having a Higgs with the observed mass of 125 GeV is the singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM). We discuss two different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-29 Rui Santos

In the present thesis, the author reviews the physics of cosmological first-order phase transitions that may have occured shortly after the Big Bang. Such transitions proceed via the nucleation and expansion of true vacuum bubbles and give…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Moritz Breitbach

We explore the possibility of detecting gravitational waves generated by first order phase transitions in multiple dark sectors. Nnaturalness is taken as a sample model that features multiple additional sectors, many of which undergo phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-25 Paul Archer-Smith , Dylan Linthorne , Daniel Stolarski

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

Left-right symmetry at high energy scales is a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model. In this paper we consider a typical minimal scenario in which it gets spontaneously broken by scalar triplets. Such a realization has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-10 Vedran Brdar , Lukas Graf , Alexander J. Helmboldt , Xun-Jie Xu

Spectra of stochastic gravitational waves (GW) generated in cosmological first-order phase transitions are computed within strongly correlated theories with a dual holographic description. The theories are mostly used as models of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Francesco Bigazzi , Alessio Caddeo , Aldo L. Cotrone , Angel Paredes

Gravitational wave astronomy has placed strong constraints on fundamental physics, and there is every expectation that future observations will continue to do so. In this work we quantify this expectation for future binary merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 Stephon Alexander , Evan McDonough , Robert Sims , Nicolas Yunes

We use non-perturbative lattice calculations to investigate the finite-temperature confinement transition of stealth dark matter, focusing on the regime in which this early-universe transition is first order and would generate a stochastic…

We present ongoing investigations of the first-order confinement transition of a composite dark matter model, to predict the resulting spectrum of gravitational waves. To avoid long autocorrelations at the first-order transition, we employ…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-23 Felix Springer , David Schaich

Taking the 3-3-1 models (with $SU(3)_c \otimes SU(3)_L \otimes U(1)_Y$ gauge group) as examples, we study that a class of new physics models with extended gauge group could undergo one or several first-order phase transitions associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-03 Fa Peng Huang , Xinmin Zhang

First-order phase transitions, which take place when the symmetries are predominantly broken (and masses are then generated) through radiative corrections, produce observable gravitational waves and primordial black holes. We provide a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-25 Alberto Salvio