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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

We critically examine the magnitude of theoretical uncertainties in perturbative calculations of first-order phase transitions, using the Standard Model effective field theory as our guide. In the usual daisy-resummed approach, we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Djuna Croon , Oliver Gould , Philipp Schicho , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Graham White

We present a comprehensive analysis of high-temperature vacuum decay and the resulting stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background within the framework of general scale-invariant models. The effective potential is constructed to include…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

We explore gravitational wave signals arising from first-order phase transitions occurring in a secluded hidden sector, allowing for the possibility that the hidden sector may have a different temperature than the Standard Model sector. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-08 Moritz Breitbach , Joachim Kopp , Eric Madge , Toby Opferkuch , Pedro Schwaller

We investigate the potential stochastic gravitational waves from first-order electroweak phase transitions in a model with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter and two Higgs doublets. The dark matter candidate can naturally evade direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Zhao Zhang , Chengfeng Cai , Xue-Min Jiang , Yi-Lei Tang , Zhao-Huan Yu , Hong-Hao Zhang

Global second-order phase transitions are expected to produce scale-invariant gravitational wave spectra. In this manuscript we explore the dynamics of a symmetry-breaking phase transition using lattice simulations. We explicitly calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 John T. Giblin , Larry R. Price , Xavier Siemens , Brian Vlcek

First-order phase transitions (FOPTs) are ubiquitous in physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Recently, models with no dimensionful parameters in the tree-level action have been attracting much attention because they can predict a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-28 Kiyoharu Kawana

We investigate first order phase transitions in a holographic setting of five-dimensional Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field, constructing phase diagrams of the dual field theory at finite temperature. We scan over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Fëanor Reuben Ares , Mark Hindmarsh , Carlos Hoyos , Niko Jokela

The vacuum decay in the early Universe should be gauge-invariant. In this work, we study the gauge dependence of the vacuum decay occurring through a first-order phase transition and the associated gravitational wave production. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-12 Jie Liu , Renhui Qin , Ligong Bian

We propose to search for a new type of gravitational wave signature relevant for particle physics models with symmetries broken at vastly different energy scales. The spectrum contains a characteristic double-peak structure consisting of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-26 Bartosz Fornal , Kassandra Garcia , Erika Pierre

Beyond solving the hierarchy problem, classically conformal (CC) theories naturally accommodate dark matter (DM). In this work, we explore the CC $SU(2)_X$ gauge theory with a triplet dark scalar, uncovering two distinct DM scenarios:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Ke-Pan Xie , Cheng-Hao Zhan

We study an extension of the Standard Model with a dark SU(2) gauge group, where a dark scalar doublet interacts with the Standard Model Higgs through a portal coupling, inducing mixing after symmetry breaking. A custodial symmetry ensures…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Maimoona Razzaq , Nico Benincasa , Luigi Delle Rose , Luca Panizzi

This study explores the parameter space of a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a non-abelian $SU(2)$ group, in which the gauge bosons are stable and acquire mass through a mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking involving a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-02 Nico Benincasa , Luigi Delle Rose , Luca Panizzi , Maimoona Razzaq , Savio Urzetta

We consider a standard model extension equipped with a dark sector where the $U(1)_X^{}$ Abelian gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by the dark Higgs mechanism. In this framework, we investigate patterns of the electroweak phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-02 Katsuya Hashino , Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Pyungwon Ko , Toshinori Matsui

We investigate the cosmological phase transition dynamics in a supersymmetric left-right symmetric model based on the gauge group $SU(3)_C \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$ that addresses the strong CP problem through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Naoyuki Haba , Yasuhiro Shimizu , Toshifumi Yamada

In this work we extend our earlier phenomenological model for a gravitational phase transition (GPT) and its generalization to early times by letting the modifications in the linearly-perturbed Einstein equations be scale-dependent. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Marzieh Farhang , Nima Khosravi

We explore the gravitational wave probes of a two-component dark matter framework, consisting of an $SU(2)_L$ triplet scalar and a Standard Model singlet fermion. The triplet scalar dark matter typically remains underabundant in the region…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Pankaj Borah , Pradipta Ghosh , Abhijit Kumar Saha

We propose and study a purely inelastic scalar dark matter model, where two real scalars-dark matter $\phi_1$ and its excited partner $\phi_2$ interact with the Standard Model via a Higgs portal. After mass diagonalization, only inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 Jinhui Guo , Jia Liu , Chenhao Peng , Xiao-Ping Wang

Employing effective field theory techniques, we advance computations of thermal parameters that enter predictions for the gravitational wave spectra from first-order electroweak phase transitions. Working with the real-singlet-extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Van Que Tran

We study the stochastic background of gravitational waves which accompany the sudden freeze-out of dark matter triggered by a cosmological first order phase transition that endows dark matter with mass. We consider models that produce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng