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 gravitational waves from NANOGrav: A broken power-law approach

M Benetti, LL Graef, S Vagnozzi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We revisit the possibility that the stochastic common-spectrum process recently detected by
the NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment could be due to primordial gravitational …

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 …

Primordial black hole production during first-order phase transitions

J Liu, L Bian, RG Cai, ZK Guo, SJ Wang - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
A novel mechanism for the primordial black hole (PBH) production is proposed as a natural
and inevitable consequence of general first-order phase transitions without reference to …

Primordial black holes generated by the non-minimal spectator field

DS Meng, C Yuan, QG Huang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2023 - Springer
We improve and generalize the non-minimal curvaton model originally proposed in arxiv:
2112.12680 to a model in which a spectator field non-minimally couples to an inflaton field …

Constraints on Interacting Dark Energy Models from the DESI Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and DES Supernovae Data

TN Li, PJ Wu, GH Du, SJ **, HL Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent results from the first-year baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) data released by the
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), combined with cosmic microwave …

Gravitational waves and primordial black hole productions from gluodynamics by holography

S He, L Li, Z Li, SJ Wang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2024 - Springer
Understanding the nature of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter is important but
challenging due to the presence of non-perturbative dynamics under extreme conditions …

Primordial black holes and curvature perturbations from false vacuum islands

RG Cai, YS Hao, SJ Wang - Science China Physics, Mechanics & …, 2024 - Springer
Recently, much attention has been focused on the false vacuum islands that are flooded by
an expanding ocean of true-vacuum bubbles slightly later than most of the other parts of the …

Hydrodynamic sound shell model

RG Cai, SJ Wang, ZY Yuwen - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
For a cosmological first-order phase transition in the early Universe, the associated
stochastic gravitational wave background is usually dominated by sound waves from plasma …

Probing QCD critical point and induced gravitational wave by black hole physics

RG Cai, S He, L Li, YX Wang - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Locating the critical endpoint of QCD and the region of a first-order phase transition at finite
baryon chemical potential is an active research area for QCD matter. We provide a …