# Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe

August 26, 2019 to September 20, 2019
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

## Gravitational wave energy budget in strongly supercooled phase transitions

Aug 26, 2019, 10:15 AM
50m
122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Dr Marek Lewicki

### Description

We derive efficiency factors for the production of gravitational waves through bubble collisions and plasma-related sources in strong phase transitions, and find the conditions under which the bubble collisions can contribute significantly to the signal. We illustrate our findings in two examples, the Standard Model with an extra $|H|^6$ interaction and a classically scale-invariant $U(1)_{\rm B-L}$ extension of the Standard Model. The contribution to the GW spectrum from bubble collisions is found to be negligible in the $|H|^6$ model, whereas it can play an important role in parts of the parameter space in the scale-invariant $U(1)_{\rm B-L}$ model. In both cases the sound-wave period is much shorter than a Hubble time, suggesting a significant amplification of the turbulence-sourced signal. We find, however, that the peak of the plasma-sourced spectrum is still produced by sound waves with the slower-falling turbulence contribution becoming important off-peak.

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