10–17 Jul 2019
Ghent
Europe/Brussels timezone

Primordial gravitational waves from sequential electroweak phase transitions

13 Jul 2019, 10:20
20m
Campus Ledeganck - Aud. 3 (Ghent)

Campus Ledeganck - Aud. 3

Ghent

Parallel talk Astroparticle Physics and Gravitational Waves Astroparticle Physics and Gravitational Waves

Speaker

Roman Pasechnik (Lund university)

Description

The first-order electroweak phase transition in the early universe could occur in multiple steps leading to specific multi-peaked signatures in the primordial gravitational wave (GW) spectrum. We argue that these signatures are generic phenomena in multi-scalar extensions of the Standard Model particularly relevant for electroweak baryogenesis. In a simple example of such an extension, we have studied the emergence of reoccuring and nested vacuum bubble configurations and their role in the formation of multiple peaks in the GW spectrum. The conditions for potential detectability of these features by the forthcoming generation of interferometers have been studied.

Primary author

Roman Pasechnik (Lund university)

Co-author

Dr Antonio Morais (Aveiro university)

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