Upper Bound on Thermal Gravitational Wave Backgrounds from Hidden Sectors
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS(2024)
摘要
Hot viscous plasmas unavoidably emit a gravitational wave background, similar to electromagnetic black body radiation. We study the contribution from hidden particles to the diffuse background emitted by the primordial plasma in the early universe. While this contribution can easily dominate over that from Standard Model particles, we find that both are capped by a generic upper bound that makes them difficult to detect with interferometers in the foreseeable future. We illustrate our results for axion-like particles and heavy neutral leptons. Finally, our results suggest that previous works overestimated the gravitational wave background from particle decays out of thermal equilibrium.
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gravitational waves / theory,particle physics- cosmology connection,physics of the early universe,primordial gravitational waves (theory)
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