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We search for a first-order phase transition gravitational wave signal in 45 pulsars from the NANOGrav 12.5 year dataset. We find that the data can be modeled in terms of a strong first order phase transition taking place at temperatures…

In this work, we show that a large class of models with a composite dark sector undergo a strong first order phase transition in the early universe, which could lead to a detectable gravitational wave signal. We summarise the basic…

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Cold Dark Matter particles may interact with ordinary particles through a dark photon, which acquires a mass thanks to a spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism. We discuss a dark photon model in which the scalar singlet associated to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Andrea Addazi , Antonino Marciano

The Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) collaboration has recently reported the observational evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave background. In light of the latest CPTA observation, we aim at exploring the ability of CPTA in probing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-01 Deng Wang

Recent evidence for the stochastic gravitational wave backgorund reported by the pulsar timing arrays (PTA) can be interpreted as a signal from the cosmological phase transition. We use up-to-date models of the gravitational wave power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 T. Boyer , A. Neronov

The baryon asymmetry, together with a dark matter asymmetry, may be produced during a first order phase transition in a generative sector. We study the possibility of a gravitational wave signal in a model realising such a scenario. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-18 Iason Baldes

The NANOGrav collaboration has recently observed first evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in pulsar timing data. Here we explore the possibility that this GWB is due to new physics, and show that the signal can be well fit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-12 Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller

We build upon the intriguing possibility that the recently reported nano-Hz gravitational wave signal by Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments is sourced by a strong first-order phase transition from a nearly conformal dark sector. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Kohei Fujikura , Sudhakantha Girmohanta , Yuichiro Nakai , Zhihao Zhang

We study possible ways gravitational waves (GW) are sourced in a theory with minimal left-right symmetry breaking. Generically first order phase transitions (FOPT) lead to gravitational waves sourced by bubble dynamics, while second order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Z. A. Borboruah , U. A. Yajnik

We show how the generation of right-handed neutrino masses in Majoron models may be associated with a first-order phase transition and accompanied by the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs). We explore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Pasquale Di Bari , Danny Marfatia , Ye-Ling Zhou

The NANOGrav collaboration for the pulsar timing array (PTA) observation recently announced evidence of an isotropic stochastic process, which may be the first detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background. We discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-18 Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada

We study the possibility of probing new physics accounting for $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly and gravitational waves with pulsar timing array measurements. The model we consider is either a light gauge boson or neutral scalar interacting with muons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-09 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian , Jing Shu

A phase transition in the dark sector (DS) presents a promising explanation for the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) signals detected in recent observations by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). Instead of focusing solely on fitting data with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 Amitayus Banik , Yanou Cui , Yu-Dai Tsai , Yuhsin Tsai

The past decade has been a transformative period for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and their search for nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs). This progress has been driven by collective advances in instrumentation for pulsar timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Kuo Liu , Siyuan Chen

Very recently, several pulsar timing array collaborations, including CPTA, EPTA, and NANOGrav, reported their results from searches for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), with each finding positive evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Ligong Bian , Shuailiang Ge , Jing Shu , Bo Wang , Xing-Yu Yang , Junchao Zong

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have entered a new era with evidence for a nanoHertz gravitational wave background (GWB). This review describes the physics of detection, detailing the noise models and cross-correlation techniques…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 C. M. F. Mingarelli , J. A. Casey-Clyde , Y. T. Chang , E. Eisenberg , F. Hutchison , N. Khusid , B. Larsen , A. Moran , F. Semenzato , L. Willson , Q. Zheng

We investigate the potential of the warped-extradimension framework as an explanation for the recently observed stochastic gravitational background at nHz frequencies in pulsar timing arrays (PTA). Our analysis reveals that the PTA data can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-07 Eugenio Megias , Germano Nardini , Mariano Quiros

The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported compelling evidence for the presence of a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background. In this letter, we combine the latest data sets from NANOGrav,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

A cosmological first-order phase transition is expected to produce a stochastic gravitational wave background. If the phase transition temperature is on the MeV scale, the power spectrum of the induced stochastic gravitational waves peaks…

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