Polarized cosmological gravitational waves from primordial helical turbulence

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Oct 7;95(15):151301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.151301. Epub 2005 Oct 4.

Abstract

We show that helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition generates circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The characteristic frequency of these GWs for an extreme case of the phase transition model is around 10(-3)-10(-2) Hz with an energy density parameter as high as 10(-12)-10(-11). The possibility of detection is briefly discussed.