The prospect of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background from the primordial universe offers a promising new window for cosmology and fundamental physics. Studying the GW signals from cosmological phase transitions can illuminate aspects of Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics and allow us to probe the early universe via a new perspective. In this study (2309.08530), we investigated minimal scalar BSM extensions, with respect to the evolution of the scalar potential at the end of inflation. More specifically, we focussed on the transition from the typical potential-dominated de Sitter epoch to the kinetic dominated period dubbed kination. In this setting, a strong first-order phase transition can take place because of the scalar field's decreasing potential barrier due to its non-minimally coupling to gravity. Therefore, a characteristic GW spectrum can be produced from the collision of true-vacuum bubbles. With this prescription, we propose a new triggering mechanism for BSM phase transitions that could produce potentially observable GW signatures with the future detectors.
From Hubble to Bubble - gravitational waves from phase transitions after inflation
Next Seminar
Testing General Relativity with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
Next Journal Club
Discussion of the paper "Energy momentum tensor, stability, and the D-term of Q-balls", by Manuel Mai and Peter Schweitzer
Black Hole Workshops
Next workshop:
XVII Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro,
19-20 December 2024
Previous workshops in the series:
I Black Holes Workshop, Porto, 2008
II Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2009
III Black Holes Workshop, Minho, 2010
IV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2011
V Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2012
VI Black Holes Workshop, Minho 2013
VII Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro 2014
VIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon 2015
IX Black Holes Workshop, Minho 2016
X Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro 2017
XI Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2018
XII Black Holes Workshop, Minho, 2019
XIII Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2020
XIV Black Holes Workshop, Aveiro, 2021
XV Black Holes Workshop, Lisbon, 2022
XVI Black Holes Workshop, Porto, 2023
Numerical data
NewFunFICO network
Our group coordinates the Marie Sklodowska Curie Staff Exchange NewFunFiCO network (Jan 2023- Dec 2026)
More info here
FunFiCO Network
Our group coordinates the Marie Curie RISE FunFiCO network (Dec 2017- Dec 2023)
More info here
EuCAPT Consortium
GWVerse COST
StronGrHEP Network
Our group was part of the RISE StronGrHEP network (2016-2019)
Meetings:
Paris, 12-13 May 2016
Azores, 3-8 July 2017
Osaka, 4-8 September 2017
NRHEP Network Meetings
Our group coordinated the "Numerical Relativity and High Energy Physics" IRSES network (2012-2015). Here is a list of the global network meetings organized:
First Meeting:
9-13 July 2012, Aveiro, Portugal
Second Meeting:
11-14 March 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
Third Meeting:
6-10 January 2014, Mississippi, USA
Fourth Meeting:
7-10 July 2015, Rome, Italy
Fifth Meeting:
28 Sep-2 Oct 2015, Belém, Brazil
Ph.D. and Post-doctoral opportunities
Contact us If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies/research in our group.
Information for prospective Ph.D. students can be found here.
Past Ph.D. theses from our group can be found here.
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