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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 104, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.043513
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- Swedish Research Council [2019-04234]
- Shota Rustaveli GNSF [FR/19-8306]
- Swedish National Allocations Committee at the Center for Parallel Computers at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
- Swedish Research Council [2019-04234] Funding Source: Swedish Research Council
Numerical simulations were conducted on gravitational waves induced by hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulent sources during QCD phase transitions, with the energy spectrum depending strongly on the nature of the turbulence, resulting in more power at low frequencies. The energy density of the gravitational waves was found to be about 10(-9) of the critical energy density in the nHz range today, and observations suggest that they may have already been detected by the NANOGrav Collaboration.
We perform numerical simulations of gravitational waves (GWs) induced by hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulent sources that might have been present at cosmological quantum chromodynamic (QCD) phase transitions. For turbulent energies of about 4% of the radiation energy density, the typical scale of such motions may have been a sizable fraction of the Hubble scale at that time. The resulting GWs are found to have an energy fraction of about 10(-9) of the critical energy density in the nHz range today and may already have been observed by the NANOGrav Collaboration. This is further made possible by our findings of shallower spectra proportional to the square root of the frequency for nonhelical hydromagnetic turbulence. This implies more power at low frequencies than for the steeper spectra previously anticipated. The behavior toward higher frequencies depends strongly on the nature of the turbulence. For vortical hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulence, there is a sharp drop of spectral GW energy by up to five orders of magnitude in the presence of helicity, and somewhat less in the absence of helicity. For acoustic hydrodynamic turbulence, the sharp drop is replaced by a power law decay, albeit with a rather steep slope. Our study supports earlier findings of a quadratic scaling of the GW energy with the magnetic energy of the turbulence and inverse quadratic scaling with the peak frequency, which leads to larger GW energies under QCD conditions.
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