Gravitational waves from domain walls in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model

2015/03/31 by Kenji Kadota, Masahiro Kawasaki, Ken'ichi Saikawa · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2015/10/041

published as JCAP10(2015)041 · 16 pages, 3 figures; revised version of the manuscript, accepted for publication in JCAP

arxiv created 2015/10/17 · arxiv updated 2015/10/20

Abstract

The next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model predicts the formation of domain walls due to the spontaneous breaking of the discrete Z₃-symmetry at the electroweak phase transition, and they collapse before the epoch of big bang nucleosynthesis if there exists a small bias term in the potential which explicitly breaks the discrete symmetry. Signatures of gravitational waves produced from these unstable domain walls are estimated and their parameter dependence is investigated. It is shown that the amplitude of gravitational waves becomes generically large in the decoupling limit, and that their frequency is low enough to be probed in future pulsar timing observations.

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