Metastable cosmic strings

W Buchmüller, V Domcke… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Many symmetry breaking patterns in grand unified theories (GUTs) give rise to cosmic
strings that eventually decay when pairs of GUT monopoles spontaneously nucleate along …

Inflation, superheavy metastable strings and gravitational waves in non-supersymmetric flipped SU (5)

G Lazarides, R Maji, A Moursy… - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Motivated by the NANOGrav 15 year data and other recent investigations of stochastic
gravitational background radiation based on pulsar timing arrays, we show how superheavy …

Supersymmetric U (1) BL flat direction and NANOGrav 15 year data

R Maji, W Park - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We show that, when connected with monopoles, the flat D-flat direction breaking the local U
(1) BL symmetry as an extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model can be …

Composite topological structures in SO (10)

G Lazarides, Q Shafi, A Tiwari - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We explore a variety of composite topological structures that arise from the
spontaneous breaking of SO (10) to SU (3) c× U (1) em via one of its maximal subgroups SU …

Imprint of PBH domination on gravitational waves generated by cosmic strings

D Borah, SJ Das, R Roshan, R Samanta - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the effect of an ultralight primordial black hole (PBH) dominated phase on the
gravitational wave (GW) spectrum generated by a cosmic string (CS) network formed as a …

A predictive and testable unified theory of fermion masses, mixing and leptogenesis

B Fu, SF King, L Marsili, S Pascoli, J Turner… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We consider a minimal non-supersymmetric SO (10) Grand Unified Theory (GUT)
model that can reproduce the observed fermionic masses and mixing parameters of the …

Cosmological probes of grand unification: Primordial black holes and scalar-induced gravitational waves

A Ghoshal, A Moursy, Q Shafi - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We investigate the inflationary cosmology involving an SU (5) GUT (grand unified theory)
singlet scalar with nonminimal coupling to the Ricci scalar. In this scenario the scale of …

First constraints on non-minimally coupled Natural and Coleman-Weinberg inflation and massive neutrino self-interactions with Planck+ BICEP/Keck

N Bostan, SR Choudhury - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, for the first time in literature, we study the predictions of non-minimally coupled
Natural and Coleman-Weinberg potentials in the n sr plane, and an extended ΛCDM model …

Gravitational waves from cosmic strings associated with pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter

ZY Qiu, ZH Yu - Chinese Physics C, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We study stochastic gravitational waves from cosmic strings generated in an ultraviolet-
complete model for pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter with a hidden ${U (1)} $ gauge …

Probing minimal grand unification through gravitational waves, proton decay, and fermion masses

S Saad - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Motivated by the direct discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) from black holes
and neutron stars, there is a growing interest in investigating GWs from other sources …