Roman Pasechnik
Senior lecturer
Gravitational waves from composite dark sectors
Author
Summary, in English
We study under which conditions a first-order phase transition in a composite dark sector can yield an observable stochastic gravitational-wave signal. To this end, we employ the Linear-Sigma model featuring Nf = 3, 4, 5 flavours and perform a Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis computation also accounting for the effects of the Polyakov loop. The model allows us to investigate the chiral phase transition in regimes that can mimic QCD-like theories incorporating in addition composite dynamics associated with the effects of confinement-deconfinement phase transition. A further benefit of this approach is that it allows to study the limit in which the effective interactions are weak. We show that strong first-order phase transitions occur for weak effective couplings of the composite sector leading to gravitational-wave signals potentially detectable at future experimental facilities.
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
Publishing year
2024-02
Language
English
Publication/Series
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2024
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Keywords
- Compositeness
- Models for Dark Matter
- Phase Transitions in the Early Universe
- Sigma Models
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1029-8479