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We study under which conditions a first-order phase transition in a composite dark sector can yield an observable stochastic gravitational-wave signal. To this end, we employ the Linear-Sigma model featuring Nf = 3, 4, 5 flavours and perform a Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis computation also accounting for the effects of the Polyakov loop. The model allows us to investigate the chiral phase transition in regimes that can mimic QCD-like theories incorporating in addition composite dynamics associated with the effects of confinement-deconfinement phase transition. A further benefit of this approach is that it allows to study the limit in which the effective interactions are weak. We show that strong first-order phase transitions occur for weak effective couplings of the composite sector leading to gravitational-wave signals potentially detectable at future experimental facilities.
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Z.-W.W. thanks Guo Huai-Ke for helpful discussions. The work of F.S. is partially supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF22-0922. M.R. acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Research Council (STFC) under the Consolidated Grant ST/T00102X/1. R.P. is supported in part by the Swedish Research Council grant, contract number 2016-05996, as well as by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 668679).
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Pasechnik, R., Reichert, M., Sannino, F. et al. Gravitational waves from composite dark sectors. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 159 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)159
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