Irreducible Gravitational Wave Background as a Particle Detector

arXiv:2604.20792 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-04-22 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-04-22

Updated: 2026-08-28

Comments: Version 3 accepted for publication in Physical Review D. Corrections have been made to the numerical results in Eqs. (14), (15), and (36)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Benchmark — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Boltzmann Equation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reheating — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Domain Walls — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Symmetry Breaking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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