Recent Work on Gravitational Waves From a Generic Standard Model-like Effective Higgs Potential

TL;DR

This paper analyzes gravitational wave signals from electroweak phase transitions using a generic Standard Model-like effective potential, providing semi-analytic formulas for key parameters and exploring model applicability.

Contribution

It introduces semi-analytic expressions for tunneling temperature and GW parameters within a generic effective potential framework, advancing the theoretical modeling of gravitational wave signals.

Findings

Derived semi-analytic tunneling temperature expression

Provided analytic formulas for GW parameters α and β

Identified models compatible with the framework

Abstract

I present recent work on gravitational waves (GWs) from a generic Standard Model-like effective potential for the electroweak phase transition. We derive a semi-analytic expression for the approximate tunneling temperature, and analytic and approximate expressions for the two GW parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$. A quick summary of our analysis and general results, as well as a list of some specific models which easily fit into this framework, are presented. The work presented here has been done in collaboration with Stefano Profumo (arXiv:0911.0687).