[HTML][HTML] Observational evidence for primordial black holes: A positivist perspective

BJ Carr, S Clesse, J Garcia-Bellido, MRS Hawkins… - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
We review numerous arguments for primordial black holes (PBHs) based on observational
evidence from a variety of lensing, dynamical, accretion and gravitational-wave effects. This …

Explaining pulsar timing array observations with primordial gravitational waves in parity-violating gravity

C Fu, J Liu, XY Yang, WW Yu, Y Zhang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently suggested the presence of a
gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. In this paper, we explore potential …

Gravitational wave signatures of no-scale supergravity in NANOGrav and beyond

S Basilakos, DV Nanopoulos, T Papanikolaou… - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
In this Letter, we derive for the first time a characteristic three-peaked GW signal within the
framework of no-scale Supergravity, being the low-energy limit of Superstring theory. We …

Primordial black holes from supercooled phase transitions

Y Gouttenoire, T Volansky - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Cosmological first-order phase transitions (1stOPTs) are said to be strongly supercooled
when the nucleation temperature is much smaller than the critical temperature. These are …

Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …

Search for nontensorial gravitational-wave backgrounds in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset

ZC Chen, YM Wu, YC Bi, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The recent detection of a stochastic signal in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset has aroused
great interest in uncovering its origin. However, the evidence for the Hellings-Downs …

NANOGrav hints for first-order confinement-deconfinement phase transition in different QCD-matter scenarios

ZC Chen, SL Li, P Wu, H Yu - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recent observations from several pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have unveiled
compelling evidence for a stochastic signal in the nanohertz band. This signal aligns …

Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions in LISA: reconstruction pipeline and physics interpretation

C Caprini, R **no, M Lewicki, E Madge… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a tool for the analysis of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from
cosmological first-order phase transitions with LISA: we initiate a template databank for …

Obviating PBH overproduction for SIGWs generated by pulsar timing arrays in loop corrected EFT of bounce

S Choudhury, S Ganguly, S Panda… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to unravel the present situation of the PBH overproduction problem, our study
emphasizes the critical role played by the equation of state (EoS) parameter w within the …

Prospects for Taiji to detect a gravitational-wave background from cosmic strings

ZC Chen, QG Huang, C Liu, L Liu, XJ Liu… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations have presented compelling evidence
for a stochastic signal at nanohertz frequencies, potentially originating from cosmic strings …