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 …

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 …

Ultra-relativistic bubbles from the simplest Higgs portal and their cosmological consequences

A Azatov, G Barni, S Chakraborty… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We analyze phase transitions in the minimal extension of the SM with a real singlet
scalar field. The novelty of our study is that we identify and analyze in detail the region of …

Model-independent energy budget for LISA

F Giese, T Konstandin, K Schmitz… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide an easy method to obtain the kinetic energy fraction in gravitational waves,
generated during a cosmological first-order phase transition, as a function of only the wall …

Gravitational waves from dark SU (3) Yang-Mills theory

E Morgante, N Ramberg, P Schwaller - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We analyze the phase transition in improved holographic QCD to obtain an estimate of the
gravitational wave signal emitted in the confinement transition of a pure SU (3) Yang-Mills …

BubbleDet: a Python package to compute functional determinants for bubble nucleation

A Ekstedt, O Gould, J Hirvonen - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We present a Python package BubbleDet for computing one-loop functional
determinants around spherically symmetric background fields. This gives the next-to-leading …

Phenomenology of a 96 GeV Higgs boson in the 2HDM with an additional singlet

S Heinemeyer, C Li, F Lika, G Moortgat-Pick, S Paasch - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We discuss a∼ 3 σ signal (local) in the light Higgs-boson search in the diphoton decay
mode at∼ 96 GeV as reported by CMS, together with a∼ 2 σ excess (local) in the bb¯ final …

Revisiting formation of primordial black holes in a supercooled first-order phase transition

MM Flores, A Kusenko, M Sasaki - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We reexamine production of primordial black holes in a supercooled phase transition. While
a mere overdensity associated with a surviving false-vacuum patch does not imply formation …

Supercool subtleties of cosmological phase transitions

P Athron, C Balázs, L Morris - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate rarely explored details of supercooled cosmological first-order phase
transitions at the electroweak scale, which may lead to strong gravitational wave signals or …

Nucleation at finite temperature: a gauge-invariant perturbative framework

J Löfgren, MJ Ramsey-Musolf, P Schicho… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We present a gauge-invariant framework for bubble nucleation in theories with radiative
symmetry breaking at high temperature. As a procedure, this perturbative framework …