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Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

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Although searches for dark matter have lasted for decades, no convincing signal has been found without ambiguity in underground detections, cosmic ray observations, and collider experiments. We show by example that gravitational wave (GW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Bo-Qiang Lu , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Da Huang

We consider a gauge-singlet complex scalar field $\Phi$ with a global $U(1)$ symmetry that is spontaneously broken at some high energy scale $f_a$. As a result, the angular part of the $\Phi$-field becomes an axion-like particle (ALP). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-07 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Francesc Ferrer , Yiyang Zhang , Yongchao Zhang

We search for a first-order phase transition (PT) gravitational wave (GW) signal from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo's first three observing runs. Due to the large theoretical uncertainties, four GW energy spectral shapes from bubble and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

In this paper, we investigate the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a first-order QCD confinement-deconfinement phase transition under external magnetic field from holography. We analyze the GWs spectra across both hard wall and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Man-Man Sun , Man-Li Tian , Zhou-Run Zhu

The misalignment mechanism allows for the efficient, and usually very cold, production of light scalar bosons, such as axion-like particles (ALPs), making them an appealing dark matter candidate. However, in certain cases, such as in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-17 Aleksandr Chatrchyan , Joerg Jaeckel

A fast-rolling axion can transfer its kinetic energy to a gauge field via the Chern-Simons coupling, leading to copious production of gauge quanta, which can act as a source of gravitational waves (GWs) with potentially observable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Kai-Ge Zhang , Jian-Feng He , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

We summarize the theoretical framework of gravitational wave (GW) production by bulk fluid motion induced by expanding broken-phase bubbles during a first-order phase transition. Using a locally stationary unequal-time correlator (UETC) to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Isak Stomberg , Alberto Roper Pol

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

A totally asymptotically free QCD axion model, where all couplings flow to zero in the infinite energy limit, was recently formulated. A very interesting feature of this fundamental theory is the ability to predict some low-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Anish Ghoshal , Alberto Salvio

We study the gravitational waves (GWs) spectrum produced during the electroweak phase transition in a scale-invariant extension of the Standard Model (SM), enlarged by a dark $ U(1)_{D} $ gauge symmetry. This symmetry incorporates a vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-10 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

Drastic changes in the early universe such as first-order phase transition can produce a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. We investigate the testability of a scale invariant extension of the standard model (SM) using the GW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 Mayumi Aoki , Hiromitsu Goto , Jisuke Kubo

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

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 explore gravitational-wave (GW) signatures from a strong first-order phase transition in a non-Abelian dark sector, which naturally gives rise to vector dark matter. We consider a general class of models featuring a new dark gauge sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Alexander Belyaev , Mårten Bertenstam , João Gonçalves , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik , Nakorn Thongyoi

In string theory inspired models of axion-like fields, sub-leading non-perturbative effects, if sufficiently large, can introduce steep cliffs and gentle plateaus onto the underlying scalar potential. During inflation, the motion of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-22 Ogan Özsoy

Many models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict a strong first-order phase transition (SFOPT) in the early Universe that leads to observable gravitational waves (GWs). In this paper, we propose a novel method for presenting and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-09 Tommi Alanne , Thomas Hugle , Moritz Platscher , Kai Schmitz

Axion inflation is a well-motivated model of cosmic inflation with a rich phenomenology. The abundant production of gauge fields during axion inflation notably sources a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background signal, which nourishes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Richard von Eckardstein , Kai Schmitz , Oleksandr Sobol

We consider gravitational wave (GW) production during preheating in hybrid inflation models where an axion-like waterfall field couples to Abelian gauge fields. Based on a linear analysis, we find that the GW signal from such models can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-03 Yanou Cui , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

We consider a simple extension of Standard Model by adding two complex singlet scalars with a $\rm{U}\left(1\right)$ symmetry. A discrete $\mathcal{Z}_2 \times \mathcal{Z}^{\prime}_2$ symmetry is imposed in the model and the added scalars…

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