Gravitational waves from dark Yang-Mills sectors

Halverson, James; Long, Cody; Maiti, Anindita; Nelson, Brent; Salinas, Gustavo

doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2021)154

Gravitational waves from dark Yang-Mills sectors

James Halverson
(
- Northeastern U. and
- IAIFI, Cambridge
)
,
Cody Long
(
- Harvard U., Phys. Dept. and
- Harvard U., CMSA
)
,
Anindita Maiti
(
- Northeastern U.
)
,
Brent Nelson
(
- Northeastern U. and
- IAIFI, Cambridge
)
,
Gustavo Salinas
(
- Northeastern U.
)

Dec 7, 2020

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JHEP 05 (2021) 154

Published: May 18, 2021

e-Print:

2012.04071 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1007/JHEP05(2021)154

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Dark Yang-Mills sectors, which are ubiquitous in the string landscape, may be reheated above their critical temperature and subsequently go through a confining first-order phase transition that produces stochastic gravitational waves in the early universe. Taking into account constraints from lattice and from Yang-Mills (center and Weyl) symmetries, we use a phenomenological model to construct an effective potential of the semi quark-gluon plasma phase, from which we compute the gravitational wave signal produced during confinement for numerous gauge groups. The signal is maximized when the dark sector dominates the energy density of the universe at the time of the phase transition. In that case, we find that it is within reach of the next-to-next generation of experiments (BBO, DECIGO) for a range of dark confinement scales near the weak scale.

Confinement
Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
gravitational radiation: stochastic
scale: confinement
scale: electroweak interaction
quark gluon: plasma
energy: density
critical phenomena
Yang-Mills
effective potential

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