Supercooled phase transitions in conformal dark sectors explain NANOGrav data
Abstract
According to recent lore, supercooled first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) cannot explain the evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background obtained by pulsar timing arrays. We demonstrate that supercooled FOPTs in Majoron-like U(1)' models with a conformal dark sector easily explain the nHz signal at NANOGrav in conjunction with the observed pattern of active neutrino masses and mixing. We find that models with a U(1)' charge of the Higgs doublet close to that of the B-L model are favored.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2025
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2501.11619
- Bibcode:
- 2025arXiv250111619G
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables