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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

Astrophysical sources of high frequency gravitational radiation are considered in association with a new interest to very sensitive HFGW receivers required for the laboratory GW Hertz experiment. A special attention is paid to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , V. N. Rudenko

First-order phase transitions are a source of stochastic gravitational radiation. Precision calculations of the gravitational waves emitted during these processes, sourced by both the degrees of freedom undergoing the transition and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 John T. Giblin , James B. Mertens

We study possible ways gravitational waves (GW) are sourced in a theory with minimal left-right symmetry breaking. Generically first order phase transitions (FOPT) lead to gravitational waves sourced by bubble dynamics, while second order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Z. A. Borboruah , U. A. Yajnik

During a strongly first-order phase transition gravitational waves are produced by bubble collisions and turbulent plasma motion. We analyze the relevant characteristics of the electroweak phase transition in the nMSSM to determine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin

It is believed that first-order phase transitions at or around the GUT scale will produce high-frequency gravitational radiation. This radiation is a consequence of the collisions and coalescence of multiple bubbles during the transition.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-04 Hillary L. Child , John T. Giblin

The low frequency part of the gravitational wave spectrum generated by local physics, such as a phase transition or parametric resonance, is largely fixed by causality, offering a clean window into the early Universe. In this work, this low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Anson Hook , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Davide Racco

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 conducted three-dimensional lattice simulations to study the density perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs) during first-order phase transition (FOPT). We find that for phase transition strength $\alpha > 1$, the forward motion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Jintao Zou , Zhiqing Zhu , Zizhuo Zhao , Ligong Bian

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

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

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

It is currently believed that the Standard Model is an effective low energy theory which in principle may contain higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators. These operators may modify the standard model Higgs potential in many ways,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Eric Greenwood , Pascal M. Vaudrevange

We analytically derive the spectrum of gravitational waves due to magneto-hydrodynamical turbulence generated by bubble collisions in a first-order phase transition. In contrast to previous studies, we take into account the fact that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Geraldine Servant

This project is aimed at studying the first-order phase transitions, that is presumed to have ensued in the early universe, and its consequences on the primordial gravitational waves. The effects of bubble nucleation, growth, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Yashmitha Kumaran

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

Thermal fluctuations in the early universe plasma and in very hot astrophysical objects are an unavoidable source of gravitational waves (GW). Differently from previous studies on the subject, we approach this problem using methods based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Grasso

We study the gravitational wave (GW) signal sourced by primordial turbulence that is assumed to be present at cosmological phase transitions like the electroweak and quantum chromodynamics phase transitions. We consider various models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-28 Axel Brandenburg , Grigol Gogoberidze , Tina Kahniashvili , Sayan Mandal , Alberto Roper Pol , Nakul Shenoy

We calculate the gravitational waves (GWs) produced by primordial black holes (PBHs) in the presence of the inflaton condensate in the early Universe. Combining the GW production from the evaporation process, the gravitational scattering of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Mathieu Gross , Essodjolo Kpatcha , Yann Mambrini , Maria Olalla Olea-Romacho , Rishav Roshan

Gravitational waves (GWs) are produced by colliding particles through the gravitational analogue of electromagnetic bremsstrahlung. We calculate the contribution of free-free emission in the radiation-dominated Universe to the stochastic GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Betty X. Hu , Abraham Loeb