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 …

Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

E Bagui, S Clesse, V De Luca, JM Ezquiaga… - Living Reviews in …, 2025 - Springer
In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most
interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could …

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

M Branchesi, M Maggiore, D Alonso… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation
gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape …

What is the source of the PTA GW signal?

J Ellis, M Fairbairn, G Franciolini, G Hütsi, A Iovino… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The most conservative interpretation of the nHz stochastic gravitational wave background
(SGWB) discovered by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations is …

Detected stochastic gravitational waves and subsolar-mass primordial black holes

K Inomata, K Kohri, T Terada - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently announced the evidence of
common-spectral processes caused by gravitational waves (GWs). These can be the …

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …

Signatures of gravity in cosmology

N Frusciante - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We investigate the impact on cosmological observables of f (Q)-gravity, a specific class of
modified gravity models in which gravity is described by the nonmetricity scalar, Q. In …

AION: an atom interferometer observatory and network

L Badurina, E Bentine, D Blas, K Bongs… - … of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We outline the experimental concept and key scientific capabilities of AION (Atom
Interferometer Observatory and Network), a proposed experimental programme using cold …

Black hole superradiance of self-interacting scalar fields

M Baryakhtar, M Galanis, R Lasenby, O Simon - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Black hole superradiance is a powerful probe of light, weakly coupled hidden sector
particles. Many candidate particles, such as axions, generically have self-interactions that …

Anatomy of single-field inflationary models for primordial black holes

A Karam, N Koivunen, E Tomberg… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We construct an analytically solvable simplified model that captures the essential features
for primordial black hole (PBH) production in most models of single-field inflation. The …