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, Geraldine

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/001

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

Chiara Caprini
(
- IPhT, Saclay
)
,
Mark Hindmarsh
(
- Sussex U. and
- Helsinki U.
)
,
Stephan Huber
(
- Sussex U.
)
,
Thomas Konstandin
(
- DESY
)
,
Jonathan Kozaczuk
(
- TRIUMF
)

Dec 19, 2015

45 pages

Published in:

JCAP 04 (2016) 001

Published: Apr 1, 2016

e-Print:

1512.06239 [astro-ph.CO]

DOI:

10.1088/1475-7516/2016/04/001

Report number:

DESY-15-246

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Abstract: (arXiv)

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.

Note:

45 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in JCAP, added discussion on noise from galactic binaries and citations

gravitational radiation: stochastic
gravitational radiation: background
background: stochastic
detector: design
critical phenomena
gravitational radiation detector: interferometer
gravitational radiation detector: satellite
sensitivity
new physics
turbulence

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