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 …

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 …

Can supercooled phase transitions explain the gravitational wave background observed by pulsar timing arrays?

P Athron, A Fowlie, CT Lu, L Morris, L Wu, Y Wu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Several pulsar timing array collaborations recently reported evidence of a stochastic
gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nHz frequencies. While the SGWB could originate …

Have pulsar timing array methods detected a cosmological phase transition?

A Addazi, YF Cai, A Marciano, L Visinelli - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We show that the recent detection of a gravitational wave (GW) background reported by
various pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations including NANOGrav-15 yr, PPTA …

Baryogenesis from the weak scale to the grand unification scale

D Bödeker, W Buchmüller - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021 - APS
The current status of baryogenesis is reviewed, with an emphasis on electroweak
baryogenesis and leptogenesis. The first detailed studies were carried out for SU (5) grand …

Detection of early-universe gravitational-wave signatures and fundamental physics

R Caldwell, Y Cui, HK Guo, V Mandic, A Mariotti… - General relativity and …, 2022 - Springer
Detection of a gravitational-wave signal of non-astrophysical origin would be a landmark
discovery, potentially providing a significant clue to some of our most basic, big-picture …

Electroweak phase transition in 2HDM under Higgs, Z-pole, and W precision measurements

H Song, W Su, M Zhang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract In this work we revisit the existence of a strong first order electroweak phase
transition (SFOEWPT) and recent m W precision measurement in the Type-I and Type-II …

Electroweak bubble wall expansion: gravitational waves and baryogenesis in Standard Model-like thermal plasma

M Lewicki, M Merchand, M Zych - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Computing the properties of the bubble wall of a cosmological first order phase
transition at electroweak scale is of paramount importance for the correct prediction of the …

[HTML][HTML] DRalgo: a package for effective field theory approach for thermal phase transitions

A Ekstedt, P Schicho, TVI Tenkanen - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
DRalgo is an algorithmic implementation that constructs an effective, dimensionally reduced,
high-temperature field theory for generic models. The corresponding Mathematica package …