Singling out SO (10) GUT models using recent PTA results

S Antusch, K Hinze, S Saad, J Steiner - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work, we construct promising model-building routes towards SO (10) grand unified
theory inflation and examine their ability to explain the recent pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) …

Confronting sound speed resonance with pulsar timing arrays

JH Jin, ZC Chen, Z Yi, ZQ You, L Liu… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The stochastic signal detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has raised great interest in
understanding its physical origin. Assuming the signal is a cosmological gravitational-wave …

Probing the equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have amassed
substantial evidence corroborating the existence of a stochastic signal consistent with a …

Probing the early Universe cosmology with NANOGrav: Possibilities and limitations

I Ben-Dayan, U Kumar, U Thattarampilly, A Verma - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
A stochastic gravitational wave background is a prediction of a number of astrophysical and
cosmological phenomena including early Universe cosmology. Recently, the NANOGrav …

Domain wall interpretation of the PTA signal confronting black hole overproduction

Y Gouttenoire, E Vitagliano - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recently, Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) Collaborations have detected a stochastic gravitational
wave background (SGWB) at nano-Hz frequencies, with domain wall networks (DWs) …

Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …

Phase transition during inflation and the gravitational wave signal at pulsar timing arrays

H An, B Su, H Tai, LT Wang, C Yang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The gravitational wave (GW) signal offers a promising window into the dynamics of the early
Universe. The recent results from the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) could be the first glimpse of …

Exploring the NANOGrav signal and planet-mass primordial black holes through Higgs inflation

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu, ZC Chen, L Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14688, 2023 - arxiv.org
The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational
Waves provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that …

Bounds on ultralight dark matter from NANOGrav

M Aghaie, G Armando, A Dondarini, P Panci - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The compelling evidence for the detection of the stochastic gravitational wave background
by NANOGrav imposes constraints on the mass of compact cores of ultra-light dark matter …

Enhancement of gravitational waves at Q-ball decay including non-linear density perturbations

M Kawasaki, K Murai - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background is indicated by the recent
pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments. We study the enhanced production of second-order …