Detecting circular polarisation in the stochastic gravitational-wave background from a first-order cosmological phase transition

Abstract

We discuss the observability of circular polarisation of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) generated by helical turbulence following a first-order cosmological phase transition, using a model that incorporates the effects of both direct and inverse energy cascades. We explore the strength of the gravitational-wave signal and the dependence of its polarisation on the helicity fraction, ${\zeta }_{\ast }$, the strength of the transition, $\alpha$, the bubble size, $R_{\ast }$, and the temperature, $T_{\ast }$, at which the transition finishes. We calculate the prospective signal-to-noise ratios of the SGWB strength and polarisation signals in the LISA experiment, exploring the parameter space in a way that is minimally sensitive to the underlying particle physics model. We find that discovery of SGWB polarisation is generally more challenging than measuring the total SGWB signal, but would be possible for appropriately strong transitions with large bubble sizes and a substantial polarisation fraction.

arXiv comment31 pages, 8 Figures

References in corpus (121)

• Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA. II: Gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions
• Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves
• Is There a Hot Electroweak Phase Transition at $m_H\gsim m_W$?
• Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update
• Chern-Simons Modified General Relativity
• Beyond LISA: Exploring Future Gravitational Wave Missions
• The construction and use of LISA sensitivity curves
• Energy Budget of Cosmological First-order Phase Transitions
• Sensitivity curves for searches for gravitational-wave backgrounds
• Numerical simulations of acoustically generated gravitational waves at a first order phase transition
• Scientific Objectives of Einstein Telescope
• The stochastic gravitational wave background from turbulence and magnetic fields generated by a first-order phase transition
• Detection methods for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds: a unified treatment
• Shape of the acoustic gravitational wave power spectrum from a first order phase transition
• Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: Probing inflation with gravitational waves
• AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
• Gravitational Waves From a Dark (Twin) Phase Transition
• On the Maximal Strength of a First-Order Electroweak Phase Transition and its Gravitational Wave Signal
• Gauge Field Production in Axion Inflation: Consequences for Monodromy, non-Gaussianity in the CMB, and Gravitational Waves at Interferometers
• Gravitational wave energy budget in strongly supercooled phase transitions
• Gravitational waves from stochastic relativistic sources: primordial turbulence and magnetic fields
• The astrophysical gravitational wave stochastic background
• Primordial Magnetic Fields from Cosmological First Order Phase Transitions
• The Spectrum of Gravitational Radiation from Primordial Turbulence
• Electroweak baryogenesis and gravitational waves from a real scalar singlet
• Inverse cascade in decaying 3D magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
• Universal infrared scaling of gravitational wave background spectra
• Sound shell model for acoustic gravitational wave production at a first-order phase transition in the early Universe
• Gravitational wave, collider and dark matter signals from a scalar singlet electroweak baryogenesis
• Dark, Cold, and Noisy: Constraining Secluded Hidden Sectors with Gravitational Waves
• Gravitational waves from first-order cosmological phase transitions: lifetime of the sound wave source
• Gravitational waves from first order cosmological phase transitions in the Sound Shell Model
• A Second Higgs Doublet in the Early Universe: Baryogenesis and Gravitational Waves
• Primordial Gravitational Waves from Axion-Gauge Fields Dynamics
• Some Cosmological Implications of Hidden Sectors
• Perturbations in Chromo-Natural Inflation
• Speculations on Primordial Magnetic Helicity
• A unified explanation for dark matter and electroweak baryogenesis with direct detection and gravitational wave signatures
• Model Discrimination in Gravitational Wave spectra from Dark Phase Transitions
• Numerical Simulations of Gravitational Waves from Early-Universe Turbulence
• Gravitational waves as a probe of extended scalar sectors with the first order electroweak phase transition
• Hearing the signals of dark sectors with gravitational wave detectors
• Sensitivity to a Frequency-Dependent Circular Polarization in an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
• Evolution of Primordial Magnetic Fields from Phase Transitions
• QCD-Electroweak First-Order Phase Transition in a Supercooled Universe
• Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition with Higgs Factories and Gravitational Waves
• Collider and Gravitational Wave Complementarity in Exploring the Singlet Extension of the Standard Model
• Discriminating between a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background and Instrument Noise
• Probing classically conformal $B-L$ model with gravitational waves
• Phase transition and gravitational wave phenomenology of scalar conformal extensions of the Standard Model
• Decay laws for three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
• Strong gravitational radiation from a simple dark matter model
• Phase transition and vacuum stability in the classically conformal B-L model
• Signals of the electroweak phase transition at colliders and gravitational wave observatories
• Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transitions: LIGO as a Window to Unexplored Seesaw Scales
• Gravitational Waves from Supercool Axions
• Measuring a Parity Violation Signature in the Early Universe via Ground-based Laser Interferometers
• Anomalous CMB polarization and gravitational chirality
• Gravitational Radiation Generated by Cosmological Phase Transition Magnetic Fields
• Parity breaking signatures from a Chern-Simons coupling during inflation: the case of non-Gaussian gravitational waves
• The Supercooled Universe
• Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• Gravitational waves and electroweak baryogenesis in a global study of the extended scalar singlet model
• Relic gravitational waves from colliding bubbles and cosmic turbulence
• Gravitational Radiation from Primordial Helical Inverse Cascade MHD Turbulence
• Hearing the echoes of electroweak baryogenesis with gravitational wave detectors
• Gravitational waves and Higgs boson couplings for exploring first order phase transition in the model with a singlet scalar field
• Probing the Electroweak Phase Transition at the LHC
• Measurement of Parity Violation in the Early Universe using Gravitational-wave Detectors
• Peccei-Quinn Phase Transition at LIGO
• Gravitational Waves produced by Compressible MHD Turbulence from Cosmological Phase Transitions
• Cosmological Phase Transitions in Warped Space: Gravitational Waves and Collider Signatures
• Polarization analysis of gravitational-wave backgrounds from the correlation signals of ground-based interferometers: measuring a circular-polarization mode
• Detectable Gravitational Waves from Very Strong Phase Transitions in the General NMSSM
• Evolution of Magnetic Fields in Freely Decaying Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
• Gravitational waves from conformal symmetry breaking
• Hearing without seeing: gravitational waves from hot and cold hidden sectors
• Prospects for direct detection of circular polarization of gravitational-wave background
• Observational prospects for gravitational waves from hidden or dark chiral phase transitions
• Baryogenesis and Gravitational Waves from Runaway Bubble Collisions
• Probing non-Gaussian Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with LISA
• Large Gravitational Wave Background Signals in Electroweak Baryogenesis Scenarios
• Helical Magnetic Fields from Inflation
• Probing the baryogenesis and dark matter relaxed in phase transition by gravitational waves and colliders
• Measuring the net circular polarization of the stochastic gravitational wave background with interferometers
• Gravitational waves from the asymmetric-dark-matter generating phase transition
• Gravitational wave and collider probes of a triplet Higgs sector with a low cutoff
• Gravitational Waves from First-Order Phase Transition in a Simple Axion-Like Particle Model
• Are Cluster Magnetic Fields Primordial ?
• Quest for circular polarization of gravitational wave background and orbits of laser interferometers in space
• Strong First Order EWPT and Strong Gravitational Waves in $Z_3$-symmetric Singlet Scalar Extension
• Intergalactic Magnetic Fields from First-Order Phase Transitions
• Gravitational wave and collider signals in complex two-Higgs doublet model with dynamical CP-violation at finite temperature
• Gravitational Waves from a Pati-Salam Phase Transition
• Gravitational wave and collider implications of electroweak baryogenesis aided by non-standard cosmology
• Polarized Cosmological Gravitational Waves from Primordial Helical Turbulence
• Multistep Strongly First Order Phase Transitions from New Fermions at the TeV Scale
• Gravitational waves at aLIGO and vacuum stability with a scalar singlet extension of the Standard Model
• Explore Inert Dark Matter Blind Spots with Gravitational Wave Signatures
• Exploring dynamical CP violation induced baryogenesis by gravitational waves and colliders
• Polarized Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions
• Helical Magnetic Fields from Sphaleron Decay and Baryogenesis
• Gravitational waves from first order electroweak phase transition in models with the $U(1{)}_X^{}$ gauge symmetry
• Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions: Ultra-supercooled transitions and the fate of relativistic shocks
• Gravitational wave from dark sector with dark pion
• Phase Transition Generated Cosmological Magnetic Field at Large Scales
• Primordial galactic magnetic fields from domain walls at the QCD phase transition
• Evolution of inflation-generated magnetic field through phase transitions
• Gravitational waves from phase transition in split NMSSM
• Electroweak Baryogenesis from Temperature-Varying Couplings
• Gravitational Radiation from Primordial Helical MHD Turbulence
• Probing the gauge symmetry breaking of the early universe in 3-3-1 models and beyond by gravitational waves
• Cosmological Signatures of a UV-Conformal Standard Model
• Gravitational traces of broken gauge symmetries
• Scale genesis and gravitational wave in a classically scale invariant extension of the standard model
• The evolution of primordial magnetic field since its generation
• Magnetic Wall From Chiral Phase Transition and CMBR Correlations
• Gravitational Waves from Walking Technicolor
• Role of Charged Gauge Fields in Generating Magnetic Seed Fields in Bubble Collisions during the Cosmological Electroweak Phase Transition
• Astrodynamical middle-frequency interferometric gravitational wave observatory AMIGO: Mission concept and orbit design
• Magnetic Seed Field Generation from Electroweak Bubble Collisions, with Bubble Walls of Finite Thickness

Cited by in corpus (16)

• Cosmology with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• The Gravitational-Wave Physics II: Progress
• Magnetic field and gravitational waves from the first-order Phase Transition
• Circular Polarization of Gravitational Waves from Early-Universe Helical Turbulence
• Polarization of gravitational waves from helical MHD turbulent sources
• On networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors
• Measuring Parity Asymmetry of Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with a Heliocentric Detector Network in the mHz Band
• Sensitivity to Dark Sector Scales from Gravitational Wave Signatures
• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Limits and Relic Gravitational Waves Detection Prospects
• Chiral gravitational waves and primordial black holes in UV-protected Natural Inflation
• Dark matter and dark radiation from the early universe with a modulus coupled to the PQMSSM
• Measuring the maximally allowed polarization states of the isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background with the ground-based detectors
• From Hubble to Bubble
• Polarization Properties of the Electromagnetic Response to High-frequency Gravitational Wave
• Simulations of helical inflationary magnetogenesis and gravitational waves
• Correlation analysis for isotropic stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with maximally allowed polarization degrees