Semi-analytic calculation of the gravitational wave signal from the electroweak phase transition for general quartic scalar effective potentials

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Kehayias, John ^a   Profumo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmological phase transitions; Gravitational waves theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950238233     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/03/003     Document Type: Article

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