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We investigate first order phase transitions arising from hidden sectors which are in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model bath in the Early Universe. Focusing on two simplified scenarios, an higgsed U(1) and a two scalar singlet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-12 Aleksandr Azatov , Daniele Barducci , Francesco Sgarlata

We use an optimised hopping parameter expansion for the free energy (linear delta expansion) to study the phase transitions at finite temperature and finite charge density in a global U(1) scalar Higgs sector on the lattice at large lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 T. S. Evans , H. F. Jones , D. Winder

A gravitational wave background from a first order phase transition in the early universe may be observable at millihertz gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In this paper we introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh , Deanna C. Hooper , Jesús Torrado

We have conducted a revised analysis of the first-order phase transition that is associated with symmetry breaking in a classically scale-invariant model that has been extended with a new $SU(2)$ gauge group. By incorporating recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Alexandros Karam , Maciej Kierkla , Bogumiła Świeżewska

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

Flavourful extensions of the Standard Model aimed at explaining its fermionic mass structure typically rely on symmetries, broken at high-energy scales far beyond the reach of foreseeable direct collider searches. We illustrate, using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-03 Anna Chrysostomou , Alan S. Cornell , Luc Darmé , Aldo Deandrea , Thibault Demartini

Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions are a promising probe of physics beyond the Standard Model, as many extensions of the standard model result in first-order phase transitions in the early universe, from which the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Mika Mäki

Among various scenarios of baryon asymmetry of the Universe, electroweak baryogenesis is directly connected with physics of the Higgs sector. We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-24 Toshinori Matsui

We explore the prospects of probing the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model (CxSM) with gravitational waves from the electroweak phase transition. The study establishes a connection of the scalar potential parameters, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Qingyuan Liang , Ligong Bian , Huai-Ke Guo , Yongcheng Wu

We present a comprehensive analysis of the preheating dynamics and associated gravitational wave signatures in the Higgs--$R^2$ inflationary model. Using lattice simulations, we investigate the post-inflationary evolution of the system…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Jinsu Kim , Zihao Yang , Ying-li Zhang

We study scalar singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), focusing on scenarios where dark matter (DM) is stabilized by a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry. In the minimal single-scalar extension of the SM, only a narrow region near the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-17 Tripurari Srivastava , Jaydeb Das , Anupam Ghosh , Arnab Chaudhuri

We discuss the current status of theoretical and experimental constraints on the real Higgs singlet extension of the Standard Model. For the second neutral (non-standard) Higgs boson we consider the full mass range from 1 GeV to 1 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-20 Tania Robens , Tim Stefaniak

We study the gravitational wave (GW) signature in the doublet left-right symmetric model (DLRSM) resulting from the strong first-order phase transition (SFOPT) associated with $SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L}$-breaking. For different values of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Siddhartha Karmakar , Dhruv Ringe

The real singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM), RxSM, is one of the simplest Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) theories that can accommodate a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT). We survey the possible thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Johannes Braathen , Sven Heinemeyer , Carlos Pulido Boatella , Alain Verduras Schaeidt

First order phase transitions in the early universe can give rise to a stochastic background of gravitational waves. A hypothetical first order electroweak phase transition is particularly interesting in this respect, since the signal is in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chiara Caprini

We study a singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model. The singlet scalar is coupled non-minimally to gravity and assumed to drive inflation, and also couple sufficiently strongly with the SM Higgs field in order to provide for a strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Tommi Tenkanen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

We study first-order electroweak phase transitions in the real-singlet extended Standard Model, for which non-zero mixing between the Higgs and the singlet can efficiently strengthen the transitions. We perform large-scale parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-29 Lauri Niemi , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen

In the framework of type-II two-Higgs-doublet model with a singlet scalar dark matter $S$, we study the dark matter observables, the electroweak phase transition, and the gravitational wave signals by such strongly first order phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Xiao-Fang Han , Lei Wang , Yang Zhang

We study the generation of gravitational waves in the electroweak phase transition. We consider a few extensions of the Standard Model, namely, the addition of scalar singlets, the minimal supersymmetric extension, and the addition of TeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-19 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

First-order phase transitions exist in many models beyond the Standard Model and can generate detectable stochastic gravitational waves for a strong one. Using the cosmological observables in big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Yang Bai , Mrunal Korwar