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

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/04/036zbMATH Open1491.83013arXiv1910.00717OpenAlexW3101578469MaRDI QIDQ5068463FDOQ5068463

Authors: António P. Morais, Roman Pasechnik 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMcosmological phase transitionsparticle physics-cosmology connectionprimordial gravitational waves (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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• Gravitational footprints of massive neutrinos and lepton number breaking
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• Detection of early-universe gravitational-wave signatures and fundamental physics

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