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The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

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

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic superstrings using a semi-analytical velocity-dependent model to describe their dynamics. We show that heavier string types may leave distinctive signatures on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Lara Sousa , Pedro P. Avelino

Cosmological phase transitions can be a source of Stochastic Gravitational Wave (SGW) background. Apart from the dynamics of the phase transition, the characteristic frequency and the fractional energy density $\Omega_{\rm gw}$ of the SGW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-16 Sampurn Anand , Ujjal Kumar Dey , Subhendra Mohanty

We study the spectrum of gravitational waves produced by a first order phase transition in a hidden sector that is colder than the visible sector. In this scenario, bubbles of the hidden sector vacuum can be nucleated through either thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Malcolm Fairbairn , Edward Hardy , Alastair Wickens

We show that the stochastic background of gravitational wave memory of growing type leads to a fractional Brownian motion increasing at the order of $t^{H}$ for large $t$ where $\frac{1}{2} < H <1$. This beats the scaling law of Brownian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-04 Lydia Bieri

The NANOGrav Collaboration recently reported a strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process in the pulsar-timing data. We evaluate the evidence of interpreting this process as mergers of super massive black hole binaries and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Ruiyu Zhou

We discuss the gravitational wave background generated by primordial density perturbations evolving during the radiation era. At second-order in a perturbative expansion, density fluctuations produce gravitational waves. We calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kishore N. Ananda , Chris Clarkson , David Wands

We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by domain walls (DWs) during inflation without forming a network. We numerically simulate the DW production caused by a second-order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-06 Haipeng An , Chen Yang

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

Gravitino masses above the electroweak scale provide the simplest solution to the gravitino problem, but such large mass scales lie far beyond the reach of collider experiments. We show that the stochastic gravitational wave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Angus Spalding , Stephen F. King

Astrophysical sources emit gravitational waves in a large variety of processes occurred since the beginning of star and galaxy formation. These waves permeate our high redshift Universe, and form a background which is the result of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Raffaella Schneider , Stefania Marassi , Valeria Ferrari

We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background produced by primordial black hole binaries during their early inspiral stage while accreting high-density radiation surrounding them in the early universe. We first show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-20 Arnab Sarkar , K. Rajesh Nayak , A. S. Majumdar

This review article is based on a seminar presented at the Higgs pairs workshop 2025. Stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds can serve as probe of the diverse phenomenology encountered in beyond-Standard-Model scenarios featuring phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Chiara Caprini

Cosmological phase transitions are a frequent phenomenon in particle physics models beyond the Standard Model, and the corresponding gravitational wave signal offers a key probe of new physics in the early Universe. Depending on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Giulio Barni , Simone Blasi , Eric Madge , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

Several mechanisms exist for generating a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the period following inflation. These mechanisms are generally classical in nature, with the gravitational waves being produced from inhomogeneities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Larry R. Price , Xavier Siemens

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 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

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves in power-law inflationary models. The energy spectrum of the gravitational waves is calculated using the method of continuous Bogoliubov coefficients. We show that, by looking at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Paulo M. Sá , Alfredo B. Henriques

Production of gravitational waves in the early universe is discussed in a cosmologically consistent analysis within a first order phase transition involving a hidden sector feebly coupled with the visible sector. Each sector resides in its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-18 Wan-Zhe Feng , Jinzheng Li , Pran Nath