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In recent years, the prospect of detecting gravitational waves sourced from a strongly first-order cosmological phase transition has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers of gravitational wave astronomy. Cosmological phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter Athron , Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Lachlan Morris , William Searle , Yang Xiao , Yang Zhang

Gravitational waves (GWs) were recently detected for the first time. This revolutionary discovery opens a new way of learning about particle physics through GWs from first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) in the early Universe. FOPTs could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-23 Peter Athron , Csaba Balázs , Andrew Fowlie , Lachlan Morris , Lei Wu

Gravitational wave backgrounds from strong first-order cosmological phase transitions are key observational targets predicted by many SM extensions and might be observed by current and future observatories like LISA, the Einstein Telescope…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Jonas Matuszak , Carlo Tasillo

We provide a roadmap for analyzing the interplay between hypothetical future collider observations and the detection of a gravitational wave signal produced by a strong first order electroweak phase transition in beyond the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-06 Leon S. Friedrich , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , Van Que Tran

In the singlet Majoron model, we study cosmological phase transitions (PTs) and their resulting gravitational waves (GWs), in the two-field phase space, without freezing any of the field directions. We first calculate the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-14 Youping Wan , Batool Imtiaz , Yi-Fu Cai

We investigate the possibility of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition during the early universe within the framework of the gauged two-Higgs doublet model (G2HDM) and explore its detectability through stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Van Que Tran , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

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

Context. As the importance of Gravitational Wave (GW) Astrophysics increases rapidly, astronomers in different fields and with different backgrounds can have the need to get a quick idea of which GW source populations can be detected by…

We investigate in details the gravitational wave (GW) from the first-order phase transition (PT) in the extended standard model of particle physics with a dimension-six operator, which is capable of exhibiting the recently discovered slow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-08 Rong-Gen Cai , Misao Sasaki , Shao-Jiang Wang

We review the production of gravitational waves by an electroweak first order phase transition. The resulting signal is a good candidate for detection at next-generation gravitational wave detectors, such as LISA. Detection of such a source…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-28 David J. Weir

We calculate the gravitational wave spectrum generated by sound waves during a cosmological phase transition, incorporating several advancements beyond the current state-of-the-art. Rather than relying on the bag model or similar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Chi Tian , Xiao Wang , Csaba Balázs

Gravitational waves potentially represent our only direct probe of the universe when it was less than one second old. In particular, first-order phase transitions in the early universe can generate a stochastic background of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tina Kahniashvili , Arthur Kosowsky , Grigol Gogoberidze , Yurii Maravin

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

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…

We report on the first 3-dimensional numerical simulations of first-order phase transitions in the early universe to include the cosmic fluid as well as the scalar field order parameter. We calculate the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-30 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan J. Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David J. Weir

Cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds are an exciting science target for next-generation ground-based detectors, as they encode invaluable information about the primordial Universe. However, any such background is expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Haowen Zhong , Luca Reali , Bei Zhou , Emanuele Berti , Vuk Mandic

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

Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions are novel probes of fundamental physics, making their precise calculation essential for revealing various mysteries of the early Universe. In this work we propose a framework that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Xiao Wang , Chi Tian , Csaba Balázs

The discovery of the astrophysical events GW150926 and GW151226 has experimentally confirmed the existence of gravitational waves (GW) and has demonstrated the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems. This finding marks the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Javier M. Antelis , Claudia Moreno

We discuss spectra of gravitational waves which are originated by the strongly first order phase transition at the electroweak symmetry breaking, which is required for a successful scenario of electroweak baryogenesis. Such spectra are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-16 Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shinya Kanemura , Toshinori Matsui
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