28 November 2016 to 2 December 2016
Australia/Sydney timezone

Gravitational Waves from Low Temperature Phase Transitions

28 Nov 2016, 16:50
20m
3003 (SNH)

3003

SNH

Speaker

Adrian Manning (Sydney University)

Description

Gravitational wave radiation can be formed in the early universe from bubbles originating from first-order phase transitions. Depending on the characteristics of the phase transition, the generated gravitational waves may be detected by future space-based gravitational wave detectors. Typically these transitions occur at time scales when the temperature of the universe was of order 50 GeV or earlier. In this talk, we look at much later phase transitions (around the 1 GeV range) and discuss the implications of these kinds of transitions. Specifically, we look at the possibility of detecting the resulting gravitational waves at current/future detectors.

Authors

Adrian Manning (Sydney University) Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney) Cyril Lagger (The University of Sydney) Jason Tsz Shing Yue (University of Sydney)

Presentation materials