Cosmological phase transitions: From perturbative particle physics to gravitational waves

P Athron, C Balázs, A Fowlie, L Morris, L Wu - Progress in Particle and …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

The TianQin project: Current progress on science and technology

J Mei, YZ Bai, J Bao, E Barausse, L Cai… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
TianQin is a planned space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory consisting of three
Earth-orbiting satellites with an orbital radius of about. The satellites will form an equilateral …

Phase transitions in an expanding universe: stochastic gravitational waves in standard and non-standard histories

HK Guo, K Sinha, D Vagie, G White - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We undertake a careful analysis of stochastic gravitational wave production from
cosmological phase transitions in an expanding universe, studying both a standard radiation …

New sensitivity curves for gravitational-wave signals from cosmological phase transitions

K Schmitz - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Gravitational waves (GWs) from strong first-order phase transitions (SFOPTs) in the
early Universe are a prime target for upcoming GW experiments. In this paper, I construct …

Detection of early-universe gravitational-wave signatures and fundamental physics

R Caldwell, Y Cui, HK Guo, V Mandic, A Mariotti… - General relativity and …, 2022 - Springer
Detection of a gravitational-wave signal of non-astrophysical origin would be a landmark
discovery, potentially providing a significant clue to some of our most basic, big-picture …

First principles determination of bubble wall velocity

B Laurent, JM Cline - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The terminal wall velocity of a first-order phase transition bubble in the early Universe can
be calculated from a set of fluid equations describing the scalar fields and the plasma's state …

Gravitational wave energy budget in strongly supercooled phase transitions

J Ellis, M Lewicki, JM No… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive efficiency factors for the production of gravitational waves through bubble
collisions and plasma-related sources in strong phase transitions, and find the conditions …

Implications of nano-Hertz gravitational waves on electroweak phase transition in the singlet dark matter model

Y Xiao, JM Yang, Y Zhang - Science bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspired by the recent evidences of nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational waves observed by
the pulsar timing array collaborations, we explore their implied supercooled electroweak …

Gravitational waves from first-order cosmological phase transitions: lifetime of the sound wave source

J Ellis, M Lewicki, JM No - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We survey systematically the general parametrisations of particle-physics models for a first-
order phase transition in the early universe, including models with polynomial potentials …

Updated predictions for gravitational waves produced in a strongly supercooled phase transition

J Ellis, M Lewicki, V Vaskonen - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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∝ γ …