Gravitational waves of a first-order QCD phase transition at finite coupling from holography

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2021.168731MaRDI QIDQ2073392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 2 February 2022

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04265

zbMATH Keywords

early universeQCDgravitational waveAdS/CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35)

Abstract: We consider a holographic study of coupling dependent gravitational waves produced by the cosmic first order QCD phase transition at finite baryochemical potential. In the dual description, the first-order QCD phase transition corresponds to the first-order Hawking-Page phase transition in Gauss-Bonnet gravity. At intermediate coupling, we obtain key quantities characterizing the gravitational wave energy density spectrum. We then find that the gravitational waves might be detected for sufficiently large Gauss-Bonnet coupling, while sound waves play an important role in the spectrum. We also consider a supercooling scenario during the QCD phase transition and show that the gravitational waves generated during this period can be detected by pulsar timing array experiments.

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