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Gravitational waves (GW) can constitute a unique probe of the primordial universe. In many cases, the characteristic frequency of the emitted GW is directly related to the energy scale at which the GW source is operating in the early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chiara Caprini

We explore the emissions of the Gravitational Waves (GWs) from a strong first-order ekectroweak phase transition. To this end, a dark matter model has been investigated in Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP) scenario, where the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-24 Madhurima Pandey , Avik Paul

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 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

Inflation models ending in a first order phase transition produce gravitational waves (GW) via bubble collisions of the true vacuum phase. We demonstrate that these bubble collisions can leave an observable signature in Advanced LIGO, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-16 Alejandro Lopez , Katherine Freese

We study the gravitational waves produced by the collision of the bubbles as a probe for the cosmological first order QCD phase transition, considering heavy static quarks. Using AdS/QCD and the correspondence between a first order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 M. Ahmadvand , K. Bitaghsir Fadafan

We study previously unexplored possibility of triggering the first order electroweak phase transition (EWPT) by interactions of the Standard Model (SM) particles with the sector responsible for low scale supersymmetry breaking. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-14 S. Demidov , D. Gorbunov , E. Kriukova

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 present the first end-to-end nonperturbative analysis of the gravitational wave power spectrum from a thermal first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT), using the framework of dimensionally reduced effective field theory and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Oliver Gould , Jonathan Kozaczuk , Lauri Niemi , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen , David J. Weir

We investigate gravitational wave signals in a non-supersymmetric grand unified model where the group $SO(10)$ is broken in two steps to the Standard Model gauge group. We calculate the analytical form of the one-loop effective potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Injun Jeong , Jörn Kersten , Stefano Scopel , Liliana Velasco-Sevilla

We generalize the analytic formula for the gravitational-wave spectrum from bubble collisions during a cosmological first-order phase transition, under the thin-wall and envelope approximations, by incorporating the effect of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Masaki Yamada

We propose a new scenario for the early universe where there is a smooth transition between an early de Sitter-like phase and a radiation dominated era. In this model, the matter content is modelled by a new type of generalised Chaplygin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-16 Mariam Bouhmadi-Lopez , Pedro Frazao , Alfredo B. Henriques

We report on the first joint analysis of observational signatures from the electroweak baryogenesis in both gravitational wave (GW) detectors and particle colliders. With an effective extension of the Higgs sector in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 Fa Peng Huang , Youping Wan , Dong-Gang Wang , Yi-Fu Cai , Xinmin Zhang

We update predictions for the gravitational wave (GW) signal from a strongly supercooled phase transition in an illustrative classically conformal U(1)$_{B-L}$ model. We implement $\propto \gamma^2$ scaling of the friction on the bubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

We present results from large-scale numerical simulations of a first order thermal phase transition in the early universe, in order to explore the shape of the acoustic gravitational wave and the velocity power spectra. We compare the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-16 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan J. Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David J. Weir

Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of these gravitational wave backgrounds on subhorizon scales have been extensively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-30 Elisa Fenu , Daniel G. Figueroa , Ruth Durrer , Juan Garcia-Bellido

In a wide class of new physics models, there exist scalar fields that obtain vacuum expectation values of high energy scales. We study the possibility that the standard model Higgs field has experienced first order phase transition at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-23 Ryusuke Jinno , Kazunori Nakayama , Masahiro Takimoto

We propose a novel mechanism where a first-order phase transition modulates the decay rate of a massive field. This modulation, even if the scalar field has negligible energy density, subsequently generates an observable stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

We consider the electroweak phase transition in the conformal extension of the standard model known as SU(2)cSM. Apart from the standard model particles, this model contains an additional scalar and gauge field that are both charged under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-15 Tomislav Prokopec , Jonas Rezacek , Bogumila Swiezewska

Theories of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking predict a strong first order cosmological phase transition: we compute the resulting signals, primordial black holes and gravitational waves. These theories employ one SM-neutral scalar,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Martín Arteaga , Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia