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From Hubble to Bubble - gravitational waves from phase transitions after inflation

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Andreas Mantziris (University of Porto)
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The prospect of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the primordial universe offers a promising new window for cosmology and fundamental physics.

Signatures of domain wall networks: from gravitational waves to primordial black holes

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Ricardo Ferreira (University of Coimbra)
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The Domain Wall (DW) problem is the fact that DW networks that result from the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries tend to dominate the universe's energy budget.
However, if the symmetry is not exact the network annihilates and the problem turns into a virtue, as the network tends to be an abundant component before its collapse, and is thus easier to probe.