TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Caprini, Chiara
AU  - Hindmarsh, Mark
AU  - Huber, Stephan
AU  - Konstandin, Thomas
AU  - Kozaczuk, Jonathan
AU  - Nardini, Germano
AU  - No, Jose Miguel
AU  - Petiteau, Antoine
AU  - Schwaller, Pedro
AU  - Servant, Geraldine
AU  - Weir, David J.
TI  - Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. II: Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions
IS  - arXiv:1512.06239
M1  - PUBDB-2015-06258
M1  - arXiv:1512.06239
M1  - DESY 15-246
PY  - 2015
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)29
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/292651
ER  -