Gravitational waves from vacuum first-order phase transitions. II. From thin to thick walls

2020/05/31 by Daniel Cutting, Elba Granados Escartin, Mark Hindmarsh +2 · 2 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.023531

published as Phys. Rev. D 103, 023531 (2021) · 24 pages, 20 figures. Updated to match version accepted for publication. Modification of how lattice uncertainty was incorporated into analysis leads to a moderate quantitative but not qualitative change in the fits reported

arxiv created 2021/01/07 · openalex publication_date 2021/01/25 · arxiv updated 2021/02/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Building on previous work (https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.123513), the authors study through extensive numerical simulations the possibility of observing the gravitational wave spectrum created in a first-order phase transition (in beyond the standard model theories) in upcoming space-based detectors like LISA. Different effective potentials are considered and it is shown that the potential could be determined by the form of the gravitational wave spectrum.

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