Cosmological phase transitions: From perturbative particle physics to gravitational waves

P Athron, C Balázs, A Fowlie, L Morris, L Wu - Progress in Particle and …, 2024 - 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 …

Cosmological backgrounds of gravitational waves

C Caprini, DG Figueroa - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early
universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by …

Flat energy spectrum of primordial gravitational waves versus peaks and the NANOGrav 2023 observation

VK Oikonomou - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
In this work we present several characteristic examples of theories of gravity and particle
physics scenarios that may yield an observable energy spectrum of stochastic primordial …

Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update

C Caprini, M Chala, GC Dorsch… - … of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the potential for observing gravitational waves from cosmological phase
transitions with LISA in light of recent theoretical and experimental developments. Our …

Current status of space gravitational wave antenna DECIGO and B-DECIGO

S Kawamura, M Ando, N Seto, S Sato… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Deci-hertz Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (DECIGO) is a future
Japanese space mission with a frequency band of 0.1 Hz to 10 Hz. DECIGO aims at the …

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 …

On the maximal strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition and its gravitational wave signal

J Ellis, M Lewicki, JM No - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
What is the maximum possible strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition and the
resulting gravitational wave (GW) signal? While naively one might expect that supercooling …

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 …

Unveiling the gravitational universe at μ-Hz frequencies

A Sesana, N Korsakova, MA Sedda, V Baibhav… - Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
We propose a space-based interferometer surveying the gravitational wave (GW) sky in the
milli-Hz to μ-Hz frequency range. By the 2040s, the μ-Hz frequency band, bracketed in …