Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has two scientific objectives of
cosmological focus: to probe the expansion rate of the universe, and to understand …

We investigate the potential for observing gravitational waves from cosmological phase
transitions with LISA in light of recent theoretical and experimental developments. Our …

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 …

A bstract Dark Matter could be a composite state of a confining sector with an approximate
scale symmetry. We consider the case where the associated pseudo-Goldstone boson, the …

A bstract Phase transitions associated with nearly conformal dynamics are known to lead to
significant supercooling. A notorious example is the phase transition in Randall-Sundrum …

A bstract Strongly-coupled theories at the TeV can naturally drive a long period of
supercooling in the early universe. Trapped into the deconfined phase, the universe could …

A bstract A strongly-coupled sector can feature a supercooled confinement transition in the
early universe. We point out that, when fundamental quanta of the strong sector are swept …

A bstract The dynamics of a cosmological (de) confinement phase transition is studied in
nearly conformally invariant field theories, where confinement is predominantly …

We investigate first order phase transitions in a holographic setting of five-dimensional
Einstein gravity coupled to a scalar field, constructing phase diagrams of the dual field …

We study the electroweak phase transition within a 5D warped model including a scalar
potential with an exponential behavior, and strong back-reaction over the metric, in the …