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 …

Cosmology with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Auclair, D Bacon, T Baker, T Barreiro… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Theoretical uncertainties for cosmological first-order phase transitions

D Croon, O Gould, P Schicho, TVI Tenkanen… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We critically examine the magnitude of theoretical uncertainties in perturbative
calculations of fist-order phase transitions, using the Standard Model effective field theory as …

Phase transitions in an expanding universe: stochastic gravitational waves in standard and non-standard histories

HK Guo, K Sinha, D Vagie, G White - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We undertake a careful analysis of stochastic gravitational wave production from
cosmological phase transitions in an expanding universe, studying both a standard radiation …

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 …

Using gravitational waves to see the first second of the Universe

R Roshan, G White - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2025 - APS
Gravitational waves are a unique probe of the early Universe, as the Universe is transparent
to gravitational radiation right back to the end of inflation. This review summarizes detection …

Implications of nano-Hertz gravitational waves on electroweak phase transition in the singlet dark matter model

Y **ao, JM Yang, Y Zhang - Science bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Inspired by the recent evidences of nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational waves observed by
the pulsar timing array collaborations, we explore their implied supercooled electroweak …

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 …

Gravitational waves from first-order cosmological phase transitions: lifetime of the sound wave source

J Ellis, M Lewicki, JM No - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We survey systematically the general parametrisations of particle-physics models for a first-
order phase transition in the early universe, including models with polynomial potentials …

Updated predictions for gravitational waves produced in a strongly supercooled phase transition

J Ellis, M Lewicki, V Vaskonen - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We update predictions for the gravitational wave (GW) signal from a strongly supercooled
phase transition in an illustrative classically conformal U (1) B− L model. We implement∝ γ …