Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. II: gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions

Caprini, Chiara; Hindmarsh, Mark; Huber, Stephan; Konstandin, Thomas; Kozaczuk, Jonathan; Nardini, Germano; No, Jose Miguel; Petiteau, Antoine; Schwaller, Pedro; Servant, Géraldine; Weir, David J. (2016). Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. II: gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions. Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics, 2016(04), 001-001. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/001

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We investigate the potential for the eLISA space-based interferometer to detect the stochastic gravitational wave background produced by strong first-order cosmological phase transitions. We discuss the resulting contributions from bubble collisions, magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, and sound waves to the stochastic background, and estimate the total corresponding signal predicted in gravitational waves. The projected sensitivity of eLISA to cosmological phase transitions is computed in a model-independent way for various detector designs and configurations. By applying these results to several specific models, we demonstrate that eLISA is able to probe many well-motivated scenarios beyond the Standard Model of particle physics predicting strong first-order cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Nardini, Germano

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1475-7516

Publisher:

Institute of Physics Publishing IOP

Language:

English

Submitter:

Esther Fiechter

Date Deposited:

30 Aug 2016 14:14

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:57

Publisher DOI:

10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/001

ArXiv ID:

1512.06239

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.86272

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/86272

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