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We place constraints on the normalized energy density in gravitational waves from first-order strong phase transitions using data from Advanced LIGO and Virgo's first, second and third observing runs. First, adopting a broken power law…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Alba Romero , Katarina Martinovic , Thomas A. Callister , Huai-Ke Guo , Mario Martínez , Mairi Sakellariadou , Feng-Wei Yang , Yue Zhao

Gravitational-wave (GW) signals offer a unique window into the dynamics of the early universe. GWs may be generated by the topological defects produced in the early universe, which contain information on the symmetry of UV physics. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 Yunjia Bao , Keisuke Harigaya , Lian-Tao Wang

We assume that the cosmological dark matter is composed of massive neutral scalar particles that decay into two massless particles. The decay produces a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs) via a 'memory effect' mechanism. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-14 Bruce Allen

We study the impact of the viscous effects of the primordial plasma on the evolution of the primordial gravitational waves (pGW) spectrum from Inflation until today, considering a self-consistent interaction that incorporates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Nahuel Mirón-Granese

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first order metric perturbation due to the rotation of the non-axisymmetric distribution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

We demonstrate that induced gravitational waves (IGWs) can naturally emerge within the framework of thermal leptogenesis models, thereby providing a robust probe for exploring this theory at remarkably high energy scales. To illustrate this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Marco Chianese , Guillem Domènech , Theodoros Papanikolaou , Rome Samanta , Ninetta Saviano

We consider gravitational wave signals produced by a first-order phase transition in a theory with a generic renormalizable thermal effective potential of power law form. We find the frequency and amplitude of the gravitational wave signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-08 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Sumit Ghosh , Jason Kumar , Jack Runburg

A first-order quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase transition (PT) may take place in the protocompact star (PCS) produced by a core-collapse supernova (CCSN). In this work, we study the consequences of such a PT in a non-rotating CCSN with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 Shuai Zha , Evan P. O'Connor , Ming-chung Chu , Lap-Ming Lin , Sean M. Couch

In this article, we investigate the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) spectrum, resulting from the emission of gravitons through bremsstrahlung, in the decay of particles produced by Hawking radiation. Although particle decays inevitably…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-30 Ki-Young Choi , Erdenebulgan Lkhagvadorj , Satyabrata Mahapatra

Future space-based interferometers offer an unprecedented opportunity to detect signals from the stochastic gravitational wave background originating from a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale. The phase transition is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Lorenzo Giombi , Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh

The equation which governs the temporal evolution of a gravitational wave (GW) in curved space-time can be treated as the Schrodinger equation for a particle moving in the presence of an effective potential. When GWs propagate in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Kostas Kleidis , Demetros B Papadopoulos , Enric Verdaguer , Loukas Vlahos

Gravitational waves from a phase transition associated with the generation of the masses of elementary particles are within the reach of future space-based detectors such as LISA. A key determinant of the resulting power spectrum, not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

Cosmological phase transitions (CPTs), such as the Grand Unified Theory (GUT) and the electroweak (EW) ones, play a significant role in both particle physics and cosmology. In this letter, we propose to probe the first-order CPTs, by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 Hongliang Jiang , Tao Liu , Sichun Sun , Yi Wang

The discovery of gravitational waves opens new opportunities to test BSM physics. In particular, the production of a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves could provide a signature of the generation of the right-right…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-13 Pasquale Di Bari

We study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by non-Gaussian curvature perturbations. We calculate the density parameter per logarithmic frequency interval, $\Omega_\text{GW}(k)$, given that the power spectrum of the curvature perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Rong-gen Cai , Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

We investigate the second order gravitational waves induced by the primordial scalar and tensor perturbations during radiation-dominated era. The explicit expressions of the power spectra of the second order GWs are presented. We calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Zhe Chang , Xukun Zhang , Jing-Zhi Zhou

Physics beyond the Standard Model may give rise to first-order phase transitions proceeding via the nucleation of vacuum bubbles, whose subsequent collisions generate gravitational waves (GWs). Their detection would open the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Katarina Trailović

Gravitational waves offer an unprecedented opportunity to look into the violent high-energy processes happening during the reheating phase of our Universe. We consider a Hubble-induced phase transition scenario as a source of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Dario Bettoni , Giorgio Laverda , Asier Lopez-Eiguren , Javier Rubio

We investigate how the production of gravitational waves (GWs) is affected by the GW velocity $(c_T)$ during preheating after inflation. For instance, we simulate the production of GWs after $\lambda\phi^4$ chaotic inflation, and find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Ke Wang , Qing-Guo Huang

Relying only on the standard model of elementary particles and gravity, we study the details of a new source of gravitational waves whose origin is in quantum physics. Namely, it is well known that massless fields in curved backgrounds…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-07 De-Chang Dai , Dejan Stojkovic