GUTs, hybrid topological defects, and gravitational waves

DI Dunsky, A Ghoshal, H Murayama, Y Sakakihara… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
The symmetry breaking of grand unified gauge groups in the early Universe often leaves
behind relic topological defects such as cosmic strings, domain walls, or monopoles. For …

Axionic domain walls at Pulsar Timing Arrays: QCD bias and particle friction

S Blasi, A Mariotti, A Rase, A Sevrin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The recent results from the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations show the first
evidence for the detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves at the nHz …

Gravitational wave pathway to testable leptogenesis

A Dasgupta, PSB Dev, A Ghoshal, A Mazumdar - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We analyze the classically scale-invariant BL model in the context of resonant leptogenesis
with the recently proposed mass-gain mechanism. The BL symmetry breaking in this …

Toward distinguishing Dirac from Majorana neutrino mass with gravitational waves

SF King, D Marfatia, MH Rahat - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We propose a new method toward distinguishing the Dirac versus Majorana nature of
neutrino masses from the spectrum of gravitational waves (GWs) associated with neutrino …

Scale of Dirac leptogenesis and left-right symmetry in the light of recent PTA results

B Barman, D Borah, SJ Das, I Saha - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Motivated by the recent release of new results from five different pulsar timing array (PTA)
experiments claiming to have found compelling evidence for primordial gravitational waves …

Gravitational wave signatures of a PBH-generated baryon-dark matter coincidence

B Barman, D Borah, SJ Das, R Roshan - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We propose a new way of probing the nonthermal origin of baryon asymmetry of the
Universe (BAU) and dark matter (DM) from evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs) via …

PBH-infused seesaw origin of matter and unique gravitational waves

D Borah, SJ Das, FR Urban - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract The Standard Model, extended with three right-handed (RH) neutrinos, is the
simplest model that can explain light neutrino masses, the baryon asymmetry of the …

Gravitational waves produced by domain walls during inflation

H An, C Yang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced
by domain walls (DWs) during inflation without forming a network. We numerically simulate …

Friction on ALP domain walls and gravitational waves

S Blasi, A Mariotti, A Rase, A Sevrin… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the early Universe evolution of axion-like particle (ALP) domain walls taking into
account the effect of friction from particles in the surrounding plasma, including the case of …

Impact of high-scale Seesaw and Leptogenesis on inflationary tensor perturbations as detectable gravitational waves

M Berbig, A Ghoshal - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We discuss the damping of inflationary gravitational waves (GW) that re-enter the
horizon before or during an epoch, where the energy budget of the universe is dominated by …