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 …

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 …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter, and the early Universe

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA)
collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-I. The dataset and timing analysis

J Antoniadis, S Babak, ASB Nielsen, CG Bassa… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Pulsar timing arrays offer a probe of the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum (1–100
nHz), which is intimately connected to a number of markers that can uniquely trace the …

Primordial gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz regime and PTA data—towards solving the GW inverse problem

E Madge, E Morgante, C Puchades-Ibáñez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints
for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we …

First-order phase transition interpretation of pulsar timing array signal is consistent with solar-mass black holes

Y Gouttenoire - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We perform a Bayesian analysis of NANOGrav 15-yr and IPTA DR2 pulsar timing residuals
and show that the recently detected stochastic gravitational-wave background is compatible …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-V. Search for continuous gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
We present the results of a search for continuous gravitational wave signals (CGWs) in the
second data release (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) Collaboration. The …

Does NANOGrav observe a dark sector phase transition?

T Bringmann, PF Depta, T Konstandin… - … of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves from a first-order cosmological phase transition, at temperatures at the
MeV-scale, would arguably be the most exciting explanation of the common red spectrum …

Gravitational waves from bubble collisions and fluid motion in strongly supercooled phase transitions

M Lewicki, V Vaskonen - The European Physical Journal C, 2023 - Springer
We estimate the gravitational wave spectra generated in strongly supercooled phase
transitions by bubble collisions and fluid motion. We derive analytically in the thin-wall …

Characterization of the gravitational wave spectrum from sound waves within the sound shell model

A Roper Pol, S Procacci, C Caprini - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We compute the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum sourced by the sound waves produced
during a first-order phase transition in the radiation-dominated epoch. The correlator of the …