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Cosmic strings are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model and constitute a plausible source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. In a previous article arXiv:2405.10937v2, we pointed out that the GW spectrum from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schröder

What is the maximum possible strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition and the resulting gravitational wave (GW) signal? While naively one might expect that supercooling could increase the strength of the transition to very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , José Miguel No

Gravitational wave production from bubble collisions was calculated in the early nineties using numerical simulations. In this paper, we present an alternative analytic estimate, relying on a different treatment of stochasticity. In our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-13 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Geraldine Servant

We present a Fisher-matrix forecast for the detectability of a stochastic gravitational wave background generated by a first-order phase transition in the early universe. We use the DECIGO and LISA missions as reference cases. The source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Diego Rios , William H. Kinney

We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

We compute the gravitational-wave (GW) energy flux up to the next-to-next-to-leading (NNL) order of tidal effects in a spinless compact binary system on quasi-circular orbits. Starting from an effective matter action, we obtain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-15 Quentin Henry , Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet

We explore a novel process in the early Universe in which thermalized photons are converted into gravitons in the presence of strong primordial magnetic fields. It is found that the frequency of generated gravitational waves (GWs) is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-19 Tomohiro Fujita , Kohei Kamada , Yuichiro Nakai

Large excursion of the inflaton field can trigger interesting dynamics. One important example is a first-order phase transition in a spectator sector which couples to the inflaton. Gravitational waves (GWs) from such a first-order phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-13 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

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

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

In present talk I show that primordial helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition induces circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The degree of polarization as well as the characteristic frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tina Kahniashvili

We study stochastic gravitational wave production and baryon number generation at electroweak phase transition with the two Higgs doublet models. The produced stochastic gravitational wave during the strongly first-order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-19 Ruiyu Zhou , Ligong Bian

Hydromagnetic turbulence produced during phase transitions in the early universe can be a powerful source of stochastic gravitational waves (GWs). GWs can be modelled by the linearised spatial part of the Einstein equations sourced by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-15 A. Roper Pol , A. Brandenburg , T. Kahniashvili , A. Kosowsky , S. Mandal

Cosmic strings represent an attractive source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. However, numerical computation of the GW signal from cosmic strings requires the evaluation of complicated integral and sum expressions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schroeder

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

Gravitational waves generated during a first-order electroweak phase transition have a typical frequency which today falls just within the band of the planned space interferometer LISA. Contrary to what happens in the Standard Model, in its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 R. Apreda , M. Maggiore , A. Nicolis , A. Riotto

First-order cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe source sound waves and, subsequently, a background of stochastic gravitational waves. Currently, predictions of these gravitational waves rely heavily on simulations of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg

We perform direct numerical simulations to compute the net circular polarization of gravitational waves from helical (chiral) turbulent sources in the early Universe for a variety of initial conditions, including driven (stationary) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tina Kahniashvili , Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol

This paper studies gravitational waves in a dark matter model composed of three types of particles with distinct spins, along with a scalar field $\phi$ that mediates interactions between Standard Model particles and dark matter. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Mohammad Hossein Rahimi Abkenar , Ahmad Mohamadnejad , Reza Sepahvand

We study the production of relic gravitational waves (GWs) in turbulent hypermagnetic fields (HMFs) in the symmetric phase of the early universe before the electroweak phase transition (EWPT). The noise of HMFs is modeled by the analog of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-13 Maxim Dvornikov