TY - JOUR
T1 - Probing early Universe supercooled phase transitions with gravitational wave data
AU - Badger, Charles
AU - Fornal, Bartosz
AU - Martinovic, Katarina
AU - Romero, Alba
AU - Turbang, Kevin
AU - Guo, Huai-Ke
AU - Mariotti, Alberto
AU - Sakellariadou, Mairi
AU - Sevrin, Alexander
AU - Yang, Feng-Wei
AU - Zhao, Yue
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by NSF’s LIGO Laboratory which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation.
The authors acknowledge computational resources provided by the LIGO Laboratory and supported by National Science Foundation Grants No. PHY-0757058 and No. PHY-0823459. The software packages used in this study are matplotlib , numpy , bilby , PyMultiNest , HTCondor . The authors thank Michele Redi and Noam Levi for useful discussions, as well as Tom Callister for the basis of the corner plot script. K. M. is supported by King’s College London through a Postgraduate International Scholarship. B. F. is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-2213144. K. T. is supported by FWO-Vlaanderen through Grant No. 1179522N and A. S. through Grant G006119N. M. S. is supported in part by the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC), United Kingdom, under the research Grant ST/P000258/1. A. M., K. T., and A. S. are supported in part by the Strategic Research Program “High-Energy Physics” of the VUB. H. G., F. Y., and Y. Z. are supported by U.S. Department of Energy under Award No. DESC0009959.
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PY - 2023/1/5
Y1 - 2023/1/5
N2 - We investigate the reach of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA detectors in the search for signatures of first-order phase transitions in the early Universe. Utilizing data from the first three observing runs, we derive constraints on the parameters of the underlying gravitational-wave background, focusing on transitions characterized by strong supercooling. As an application of our analysis, we determine bounds on the parameter space of two representative particle physics models. We also comment on the expected reach of third-generation detectors in probing supercooled phase transitions.
AB - We investigate the reach of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA detectors in the search for signatures of first-order phase transitions in the early Universe. Utilizing data from the first three observing runs, we derive constraints on the parameters of the underlying gravitational-wave background, focusing on transitions characterized by strong supercooling. As an application of our analysis, we determine bounds on the parameter space of two representative particle physics models. We also comment on the expected reach of third-generation detectors in probing supercooled phase transitions.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.023511
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.107.023511
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85146362658
SN - 2470-0010
VL - 107
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
IS - 2
M1 - 023511
ER -