Gravitational Waves from Global Cosmic Strings and Cosmic Archaeology

Abstract

Global cosmic strings are predicted in many motivated extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics, with close connections to axion dark matter physics. Recent studies suggest that, although subdominant relative to Goldstone emission, gravitational wave (GW) signals from global strings can be detectable with current and planned GW detectors such as LIGO, LISA, DECIGO/BBO, ET/CE and AEDGE/AION, as well as pulsar timing arrays such as PPTA, NANOGrav and SKA. This work is an extensive, updated study on GWs from a global cosmic string network, taking into account of the most recent developments related to the subject. The main analysis is based on the analytical Velocity-dependent One-Scale (VOS) model calibrated with recent simulation results, which provides a generic protocol for such calculations with details given. We also demonstrate how the GW signal can be influenced with variations to the baseline model: this includes considering the uncertainties of model parameters and the potential deviation from the conventional VOS model prediction (i.e. the scaling behavior) as suggested by some of the recent simulation results. Furthermore, we investigated in detail the effect of a non-standard cosmology (e.g. early matter domination or kination) or new particle species on the GW signals from global strings. We demonstrate that the frequency spectrum of GW background from global cosmic strings can be used to probe the cosmic history prior to the Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) (i.e. the primordial dark age) up to a temperature of $T\sim 10^8$ GeV.

arXiv comment34 pages, 16 figures, JHEP published version

References in corpus (165)

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
• Advanced LIGO
• GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
• Axion Cosmology
• String Axiverse
• Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
• Cosmic strings
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
• Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
• A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
• Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories
• Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves
• Echoes of a Hidden Valley at Hadron Colliders
• Electroweak baryogenesis
• The Twin Higgs: Natural Electroweak Breaking from Mirror Symmetry
• Cosmological Relaxation of the Electroweak Scale
• The landscape of QCD axion models
• Sensitivity curves for searches for gravitational-wave backgrounds
• Cosmic F- and D-strings
• Gravitational radiation from cosmic (super)strings: bursts, stochastic background, and observational windows
• Detector configuration of DECIGO/BBO and identification of cosmological neutron-star binaries
• Detection methods for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds: a unified treatment
• Gravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes missing in pulsar observations
• Inflationary Cosmology
• Science with the space-based interferometer LISA. IV: Probing inflation with gravitational waves
• Gravitational Waves from Phase Transitions at the Electroweak Scale and Beyond
• GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes
• Relic gravitational waves produced after preheating
• Cosmological Backgrounds of Gravitational Waves and eLISA/NGO: Phase Transitions, Cosmic Strings and Other Sources
• AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
• Gravitational Waves From a Dark (Twin) Phase Transition
• The number of cosmic string loops
• AION: An Atom Interferometer Observatory and Network
• Axion dark matter from topological defects
• Formation and evolution of cosmic D-strings
• Quantitative String Evolution
• Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run
• Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
• A Clockwork Axion
• NANOGrav Hints to Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter
• Cosmological implications of ultra-light axion-like fields
• Probing the early universe with inflationary gravitational waves
• New Sensitivity Curves for Gravitational-Wave Signals from Cosmological Phase Transitions
• Baryon Washout, Electroweak Phase Transition, and Perturbation Theory
• Cosmic String Interpretation of NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Data
• Probing the gravitational wave background from cosmic strings with LISA
• Extending the Velocity-dependent One-scale String Evolution Model
• Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors
• Placing limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background using European Pulsar Timing Array data
• Has NANOGrav found first evidence for cosmic strings?
• Gravitational Wave Production At The End Of Inflation
• Axions from Strings: the Attractive Solution
• Large parallel cosmic string simulations: New results on loop production
• A stochastic background of gravitational waves from hybrid preheating
• Did NANOGrav see a signal from primordial black hole formation?
• More Axions from Strings
• Stochastic gravitational wave background from smoothed cosmic string loops
• Quintessence and the Relic Density of Neutralinos
• GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences
• Reconstructing the spectral shape of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA
• A new cosmic microwave background constraint to primordial gravitational waves
• Mirror dark matter: Cosmology, galaxy structure and direct detection
• Implications of the NANOGrav results for inflation
• Early-Universe Simulations of the Cosmological Axion
• Stochastic Gravitational Wave Production After Inflation
• Production of dark matter axions from collapse of string-wall systems
• Direct detection of the inflationary gravitational wave background
• Axion Kinetic Misalignment Mechanism
• CMB power spectrum contribution from cosmic strings using field-evolution simulations of the Abelian Higgs model
• Relating gravitational wave constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis, pulsar timing, laser interferometers, and the CMB: implications for the early universe
• Collisions of Cosmic F- and D-strings
• Gravitational-wave cosmology across 29 decades in frequency
• New limits on cosmic strings from gravitational wave observation
• Early seeds of axion miniclusters
• Solar-Mass Primordial Black Holes Explain NANOGrav Hint of Gravitational Waves
• LISA for Cosmologists: Calculating the Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Stochastic and Deterministic Sources
• From NANOGrav to LIGO with metastable cosmic strings
• Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run
• Studies of the motion and decay of axion walls bounded by strings
• Digging deeper: Observing primordial gravitational waves below the binary black hole produced stochastic background
• Phases of New Physics in the CMB
• Beyond the Standard Models with Cosmic Strings
• Probing the pre-BBN universe with gravitational waves from cosmic strings
• Testing Seesaw and Leptogenesis with Gravitational Waves
• Nnaturalness
• Improved reconstruction of a stochastic gravitational wave background with LISA
• Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings
• Cosmic microwave background anisotropy from wiggly strings
• Exact Scale-Invariant Background of Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Defects
• Improved estimation of radiated axions from cosmological axionic strings
• New Light Species and the CMB
• Scaling of Multi-Tension Cosmic Superstring Networks
• Probing the scale of grand unification with gravitational waves
• Scaling from gauge and scalar radiation in Abelian Higgs string networks
• Axion dark matter: strings and their cores
• Probing the Universe through the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
• Signals of Inflationary Models with Cosmic Strings
• Chilly Dark Sectors and Asymmetric Reheating
• Stochastic gravitational waves from cosmic string loops in scaling
• Fingerprint of Low-Scale Leptogenesis in the Primordial Gravitational-Wave Spectrum
• Observing Invisible Axions with Gravitational Waves
• Anisotropies in the stochastic gravitational-wave background: Formalism and the cosmic string case
• A Little Solution to the Little Hierarchy Problem: A Vector-like Generation
• The stochastic gravity-wave background: sources and detection
• The scaling density of axion strings
• Long-term dynamics of cosmological axion strings
• Comparison of cosmic string and superstring models to NANOGrav 12.5-year results
• Testing the dark SU(N) Yang-Mills theory Confined Landscape: From the Lattice to Gravitational Waves
• NANOGrav signal from MHD turbulence at QCD phase transition in the early universe
• A Hidden Dark Matter Sector, Dark Radiation, and the CMB
• Gravitational waves and proton decay: complementary windows into GUTs
• A detail study of defect models for cosmic structure formation
• Gravitational wave probes of axion-like particles
• The optimal search for an astrophysical gravitational-wave background
• A Cosmological Mechanism for Stabilizing Moduli
• Gravitational Waves from Collapsing Vacuum Domains
• Cosmological Constraints on Interacting Light Particles
• Probing non-Gaussian Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with LISA
• A fresh look at the gravitational-wave signal from cosmological phase transitions
• Field theory simulation of Abelian-Higgs cosmic string cusps
• Extending the velocity-dependent one-scale model for domain walls
• Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Global Cosmic Strings
• How to simulate global cosmic strings with large string tension
• Spectral separation of the stochastic gravitational-wave background for LISA: observing both cosmological and astrophysical backgrounds
• Cosmic Strings
• BSM with Cosmic Strings: Heavy, up to EeV mass, Unstable Particles
• Approach to scaling in axion string networks
• New Perspectives on Axion Misalignment Mechanism
• Unified model for vortex-string network evolution
• Radiation from cosmic string standing waves
• Gravitational-wave parameter estimation with gaps in LISA: a Bayesian data augmentation method
• Gravitational Wave Bursts as Harbingers of Cosmic Strings Diluted by Inflation
• Gravitational Waves from Pati-Salam Dynamics
• Cosmic Microwave Background constraints for global strings and global monopoles
• Inflationary Cosmology Connecting Dark Energy and Dark Matter
• Irreducible background of gravitational waves from a cosmic defect network: update and comparison of numerical techniques
• Cosmic string loop shapes
• Quantitative evolution of global strings from the Lagrangian viewpoint
• Signature of inflation in the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic string networks
• Gravitational waves from axion-like particle cosmic string-wall networks
• Using a Primordial Gravitational Wave Background to Illuminate New Physics
• Global cosmic string networks as a function of tension
• Scaling properties of cosmological axion strings
• New Constraints on Dark Matter Production during Kination
• Decay of Cosmic Global String Loops
• Extending and Calibrating the Velocity dependent One-Scale model for Cosmic Strings with One Thousand Field Theory Simulations
• LISA Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Sound Waves
• Improved constraint on the primordial gravitational-wave density using recent cosmological data and its impact on cosmic string models
• Model Dependence of Bayesian Gravitational-Wave Background Statistics for Pulsar Timing Arrays
• The QCD Axion and Gravitational Waves in light of NANOGrav results
• TASI lectures on dark matter models and direct detection
• Gravitational backreaction simulations of simple cosmic string loops
• Cannibal domination and the matter power spectrum
• CMB Constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background at Mpc scales
• Dark Matter, Dark Radiation and Gravitational Waves from Mirror Higgs Parity
• Type I Abelian Higgs strings: evolution and Cosmic Microwave Background constraints
• Generalised velocity-dependent one-scale model for current-carrying strings
• Impact of a Midband Gravitational Wave Experiment On Detectability of Cosmological Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
• Fast Analytic Computation of Cosmic String Power Spectra
• The Probability Distribution of Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background Fluctuations
• Quantifying the effect of cooled initial conditions on cosmic string network evolution
• Physical and invariant models for defect network evolution
• Recent Perspectives on Axion Cosmology

Cited by in corpus (48)

• Dark Matter from Axion Strings with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
• The recent gravitational wave observation by pulsar timing arrays and primordial black holes: the importance of non-gaussianities
• Inflationary interpretation of the stochastic gravitational wave background signal detected by pulsar timing array experiments
• Cosmological Background Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data
• Primordial gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz regime and PTA data -- towards solving the GW inverse problem
• Stochastic gravitational-wave background from metastable cosmic strings
• Detection of Early-Universe Gravitational Wave Signatures and Fundamental Physics
• The Science of the Einstein Telescope
• Gravitational Wave and CMB Probes of Axion Kination
• First-order Phase Transition interpretation of PTA signal produces solar-mass Black Holes
• Gravitational Wave from Graviton Bremsstrahlung during Reheating
• Primordial Black Hole Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings
• Curbing PBHs with PTAs
• Quintessential inflation: A tale of emergent and broken symmetries
• Ultrahigh frequency primordial gravitational waves beyond the kHz: The case of cosmic strings
• Testing Super-Heavy Dark Matter from Primordial Black Holes with Gravitational Waves
• $\mu$-hybrid Inflation, Gravitino Dark Matter and Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmic Strings
• One $\mu$ to rule them all: CMB spectral distortions can probe domain walls, cosmic strings and low scale phase transitions
• Gravitational Wave Emission from a Cosmic String Loop, I: Global Case
• Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model
• Primordial magnetic field as a common solution of nanohertz gravitational waves and the Hubble tension
• Cosmic string gravitational waves from global $U(1{)}_{B-L}$ symmetry breaking as a probe of the type I seesaw scale
• WIMPs Without Weakness: Generalized Mass Window with Entropy Injection
• Superradiant Leptogenesis
• "Stairway to Heaven" -- Spectroscopy of Particle Couplings with Gravitational Waves
• Enhanced Early Galaxy Formation in JWST from Axion Dark Matter?
• Gravitational wave and particle emission from a cosmic string loop: local case
• Fast Likelihood-free Reconstruction of Gravitational Wave Backgrounds
• Stochastic gravitational wave background: birth from string-wall death
• Present and future of CosmoLattice
• A universal bound on the duration of a kination era
• Future targets for light gauge bosons from cosmic strings
• Crescendo Beyond the Horizon: More Gravitational Waves from Domain Walls Bounded by Inflated Cosmic Strings
• Resolving the QCD Axion Domain Wall Problem with a Light Axion
• Probing Self-Interacting Dark Matter via Gravitational-Wave Background from Eccentric Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
• Frequency-Domain Distribution of Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds
• Primordial gravitational waves from spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking
• Complementarity between Cosmic String Gravitational Waves and long-lived particle searches in a laboratory
• Shining Light on Cosmogenic Axions with Neutrino Experiments
• Gravitational wave signal from primordial magnetic fields in the Pulsar Timing Array frequency band
• Gravitational wave and dark matter from Axion-Higgs string
• Complementary signatures of $\alpha -$attractor inflation in CMB and cosmic string Gravitational Waves
• Effects of Nontrivial Topology on Neutron Star Rotation and its Potential Observational Implications
• Imprints of an early matter-dominated era arising from dark matter dilution mechanism on cosmic string dynamics and gravitational wave signatures
• From $U(1)\times U(1)$ Symmetry Breaking to Majoron Cosmology: Insights from NANOGrav 15-year Data
• Emission of Nambu-Goldstone bosons from the semilocal string network
• Searching Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Landscape Across Frequency Bands
• Accelerating Airy tensor modes of cosmological gravitational waves