Superheavy quasistable strings and walls bounded by strings in the light of NANOGrav 15 year data

G Lazarides, R Maji, Q Shafi - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Composite topological structures such as superheavy “quasistable strings”(QSS) and “walls
bounded by strings”(WBS) arise in realistic extensions of the Standard Model of high energy …

Simultaneously probing the sound speed and equation of state of the early Universe with pulsar timing arrays

L Liu, Y Wu, ZC Chen - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several major pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have assembled strong
evidence for the existence of a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the …

Gravitational waves from metastable cosmic strings in the Pati-Salam model in light of new pulsar timing array data

W Ahmed, TA Chowdhury, S Nasri, S Saad - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
A series of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) recently observed gravitational waves at the
nanohertz frequencies. Motivated by this remarkable result, we present a novel class of Pati …

Exploring the NANOGrav signal and planet-mass primordial black holes through Higgs inflation

Z Yi, ZQ You, Y Wu, ZC Chen, L Liu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14688, 2023 - arxiv.org
The data recently released by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational
Waves provides compelling evidence supporting the existence of a stochastic signal that …

Obviating PBH overproduction for SIGWs generated by pulsar timing arrays in loop corrected EFT of bounce

S Choudhury, S Ganguly, S Panda… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to unravel the present situation of the PBH overproduction problem, our study
emphasizes the critical role played by the equation of state (EoS) parameter w within the …

Enhancement of gravitational waves at Q-ball decay including non-linear density perturbations

M Kawasaki, K Murai - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background is indicated by the recent
pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments. We study the enhanced production of second-order …

Toward supermassive primordial black holes from inflationary bubbles

HL Huang, YS Piao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The bubbles that nucleated during slow-roll inflation can be supercritical, ie, their radii are
larger than the Hubble horizon of de Sitter spacetime inside the bubble (an inflating baby …

Probing the speed of scalar-induced gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays

ZC Chen, J Li, L Liu, Z Yi - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Recently, several regional pulsar timing array collaborations, including CPTA, EPTA, PPTA,
and NANOGrav, have individually reported compelling evidence for a stochastic signal at …

[HTML][HTML] Gravitational wave emission from metastable current-carrying strings in E6

A Afzal, Q Shafi, A Tiwari - Physics Letters B, 2024 - Elsevier
We discuss E 6 based extensions of the Standard Model (SM) containing two varieties of
superheavy metastable cosmic strings (CSs) that respectively have neutral and electrically …

Null energy condition violation during inflation and pulsar timing array observations

G Ye, M Zhu, Y Cai - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Recently, evidence of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signals
observed by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, has prompted investigations into their …