Gravitational radiation from primordial helical magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jun 13;100(23):231301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.231301. Epub 2008 Jun 10.

Abstract

We consider gravitational waves (GWs) generated by primordial inverse-cascade helical magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence produced by bubble collisions at the electroweak phase transitions (EWPT). Compared to the unmagnetized EWPT case, the spectrum of MHD-turbulence-generated GWs peaks at lower frequency with larger amplitude and can be detected by the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.