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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

With the continuous upgrade of detectors, more and more gravitational wave (GW) events were captured by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC), which offers a new avenue to test General Relativity and explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Rui Niu , Xing Zhang , Bo Wang , Wen Zhao

We study the propagation of cosmological gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds from the early radiation era until the present day in modified theories of gravity. Comparing to general relativity (GR), we study the effects that modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Yutong He , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg

Recent evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background found by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations has inspired many studies looking for possible sources. We consider the hypothesis that the GW signature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-22 Dhruv Ringe

Gravitational waves (GWs) have the potential to probe the entirety of cosmological history due to their nearly perfect decoupling from the thermal bath and any intervening matter after emission. In recent years, GW cosmology has evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Thomas Kite , Andrea Ravenni , Subodh P. Patil , Jens Chluba

Strong first-order phase transitions (SFOPT) during the evolution of the Higgs potential in the early universe not only allow for the dynamical generation of the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry, they can also source a stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Philipp Basler , Lisa Biermann , Margarete Mühlleitner , Jonas Müller , Rui Santos , João Viana

In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we elaborate on the possibility that this signal comes from new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-02 Eric Madge , Enrico Morgante , Cristina Puchades-Ibáñez , Nicklas Ramberg , Wolfram Ratzinger , Sebastian Schenk , Pedro Schwaller

Gravitational waves (GW) emanating from unstable quasi-normal modes in Neutron Stars (NS) could be accessible with the improved sensitivity of the current GW detectors or with the next-generation GW detectors and, therefore, can be employed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Dhruv Pathak , Debarati Chatterjee

We investigate the properties of the gravitational waves (GWs) generated during a strongly first order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in models with the classical scale invariance (CSI). Here, we distinguish two parameter space regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-12 Amine Ahriche , Shinya Kanemura , Masanori Tanaka

We use the gravitational wave (GW) events GW170817 and GW190521, together with their proposed electromagnetic counterparts, to constrain cosmological parameters and theories of gravity beyond General Relativity (GR). In particular we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 S. Mastrogiovanni , L. Haegel , C. Karathanasis , I. Magana-Hernandez , D. A. Steer

We study the general NMSSM with an emphasis on the parameter regions with a very strong first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT). In the presence of heavy fields coupled to the Higgs sector, the analysis can be problematic due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-08 Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin , Germano Nardini , Ingo Rues

We proposed a model-independent method to constrain the cosmological parameters using the Distance Sum Rule of the FLRW metric by combining the time delay distances and the comoving distances through a multi-messenger approach. The time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Yufeng Li , Xilong Fan , Lijun Gou

Third generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will operate in the $(\text{few}-10^4)$ Hz frequency band, with a boost in sensitivity providing an unprecedented reach into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-21 Chiara Caprini , Oriol Pujolàs , Hippolyte Quelquejay-Leclere , Fabrizio Rompineve , Danièle A. Steer

We study primordial gravitational waves (GWs) generated from first-order phase transitions (PTs) during cosmic reheating. Using a minimal particle physics model, and a general parametrization of the inflaton energy density and the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Amitayus Banik , Nicolás Bernal , Fazlollah Hajkarim

The future space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors would provide a promising probe for the new physics beyond the standard model that admits the first-order phase transitions. The predictions for the GW background vary sensitively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-07 Rong-Gen Cai , Katsuya Hashino , Shao-Jiang Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

Spectra of stochastic gravitational waves (GW) generated in cosmological first-order phase transitions are computed within strongly correlated theories with a dual holographic description. The theories are mostly used as models of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Francesco Bigazzi , Alessio Caddeo , Aldo L. Cotrone , Angel Paredes

We place observational constraints on an FLRW cosmological model in $f(R,L_m)$ gravity with a specific deceleration parameter that depends on the scale factor. This form of the deceleration parameter has been discussed by authors in several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 Aroonkumar Beesham

Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by presenting definitions of GWs in flat space-time and in a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-23 Chiara Caprini , Daniel G. Figueroa

Gravitational waves (GWs) are one of the key signatures of cosmic strings. If GWs from cosmic strings are detected in future experiments, not only their existence can be confirmed but also their properties might be probed. In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Koichi Miyamoto , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Joseph Silk

We study the possibility of constraining a scenario with high scale first order phase transition (FOPT) responsible for the cogenesis of baryon and dark matter using gravitational wave (GW) (non)-observations. While the FOPT at high scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-30 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Indrajit Saha