Probing multi-step electroweak phase transition with multi-peaked primordial gravitational waves spectra

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/036MaRDI QIDQ5068463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors António P. Morais, Roman Pasechnik

Publication date 6 April 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00717

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological phase transitionscosmology of theories beyond the SMparticle physics-cosmology connectionprimordial gravitational waves (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Peak functions (32T40) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Gravitational waves (83C35) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Multi-peaked spectra of the primordial gravitational waves are considered as a phenomenologically relevant source of information about the dynamics of sequential phase transitions in the early Universe. In particular, such signatures trace back to specific patterns of the first-order electroweak phase transition in the early Universe occurring in multiple steps. Such phenomena appear to be rather generic in multi-scalar extensions of the Standard Model. In a particularly simple extension of the Higgs sector, we have identified and studied the emergence of sequential long- and short-lasting transitions as well as their fundamental role in generation of multi-peaked structures in the primordial gravitational-wave spectrum. We discuss the potential detectability of these signatures by the proposed gravitational-wave interferometers.

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