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We update predictions for the gravitational wave (GW) signal from a strongly supercooled phase transition in an illustrative classically conformal U(1)$_{B-L}$ model. We implement $\propto \gamma^2$ scaling of the friction on the bubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

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

In this paper we explore the possibility of observable gravitational waves as a manifestation of the QCD axion dynamics. In particular, we focus on dynamical axion models which solve the strong CP problem, and include the confinement of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Djuna Croon , Rachel Houtz , Veronica Sanz

An analysis of baryogenesis and stochastic gravitational wave production is presented for an extension of the standard model where the dark sector consists of dark matter particles charged under a $U(1)_x$ gauge symmetry, while a subset of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Wan-Zhe Feng , Jinzheng Li , Pran Nath , Zong-Huan Ye

First-order phase transitions exist in many models beyond the Standard Model and can generate detectable stochastic gravitational waves for a strong one. Using the cosmological observables in big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Yang Bai , Mrunal Korwar

We study a conformal version of the Standard Model (SM), which apart from SM sector, containing a $ U_{D}(1) $ dark sector with a vector dark matter candidate and a scalar field (scalon). In this model the dark sector couples to the SM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-02 Seyed Yaser Ayazi , Ahmad Mohamadnejad

In the quest to unravel the dark sector, feebly interacting freeze-in dark matter presents an intriguing possibility, plausibly explaining the consistent null results from various dark matter experiments. We propose a unique imprint in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Partha Konar , Sudipta Show

We study supercooled first-order phase transitions above the QCD scale in a wide class of conformal Majoron-like U(1)' models that explain the totality of active neutrino oscillation data and produce a detectable stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 João Gonçalves , Danny Marfatia , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik

We investigate the prospects for probing asymmetric dark matter models through their gravitational wave signatures. We concentrate on a theory extending the Standard Model gauge symmetry by a non-Abelian group, under which leptons form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-03 Bartosz Fornal , Erika Pierre

In this article we examine the prospect of first order phase transition with a Y=0 real $SU(2)$ triplet extension of the Standard Model, which remains odd under $Z_2$, considering the observed Higgs boson mass, perturbative unitarity, dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Priyotosh Bandyopadhyay , Shilpa Jangid

We study the gravitational wave (GW) signature of first-order chiral phase transitions ($\chi$PT) in strongly interacting hidden or dark sectors. We do so using several effective models in order to reliably capture the relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-20 Alexander J. Helmboldt , Jisuke Kubo , Susan van der Woude

During a strongly first-order phase transition gravitational waves are produced by bubble collisions and turbulent plasma motion. We analyze the relevant characteristics of the electroweak phase transition in the nMSSM to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin

Models where symmetries are predominantly broken (and masses are then generated) through radiative corrections typically produce strong first-order phase transitions with a period of supercooling, when the temperature dropped by several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-24 Alberto Salvio

We study production of gravitational waves (GWs) in strongly supercooled cosmological phase transitions in gauge theories. We extract from two-bubble lattice simulations the scaling of the GW source, and use it in many-bubble simulations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

Gravitational wave oscillations arise from the exchange of energy between the metric perturbations and additional tensor modes. This phenomenon can occur even when the extra degrees of freedom consist of a triplet of massive Abelian vector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Gabriel Gomez , Jose F. Rodriguez

We study in detail the viability and the patterns of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition as a prerequisite to electroweak baryogenesis in the framework of $Z_3$-invariant Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Arindam Chatterjee , AseshKrishna Datta , Subhojit Roy

We study the dependence of the observable stochastic gravitational wave background induced by a first-order phase transition on the global properties of the scalar effective potential in particle physics. The scalar potential can be that of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-06 Mikael Chala , Valentin V. Khoze , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

This paper discusses the gauge issue touching the gravitational waves induced at the second order by the scalar modes of cosmological perturbations. These waves are known to depend on the gauge used for their calculation. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-27 Vincent Comeau

The NANOGrav, Parkes and European Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have collected strong evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz-frequency band. In this work we perform a detailed statistical analysis of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Martin Wolfgang Winkler , Katherine Freese

In this paper we study four concrete models, based on no-scale supergravity with SU(2,1)/SU(2)$\times$ U(1) symmetry. We modify either the K\"ahler potential or the superpotential, which are related to the no-scale theory with this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Vassilis C. Spanos , Ioanna D. Stamou