The effect of sound speed on the gravitational wave spectrum of first order phase transitions in the early universe

My second master's thesis.

Mika Mäki, 2021-2024

This thesis is a part of PTtools documentation, and will therefore be updated after its initial submission. You can find the latest version of the pdf in GitHub actions by clicking the name of the latest workflow run and going to Artifacts -> Thesis pdf. The submitted version of the thesis is available in Helda.

For my first master's thesis, see here, and for my bachelor's thesis, see here.

License notes

The CC BY 4.0 license applies to this repository and the generated pdf files with the following exceptions:

• Third-party figures in the odp and pdf slides and in the slide folders
• The photo of my face in the odp and pdf slides
• cft_meetup_presentation_2024/vlcsnap*.png figures
• The figures in fig/lecture notes are CC-BY-4.0, but by Hindmarsh et al., DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.24
• The Python code in msc2-python/giese. This is originally developed by Giese et al., DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/072
• The University of Helsinki LaTeX template files babelbst.tex, englbst.tex, finnbst.tex, swedbst.tex, tktl.bst, UH_TCM_MSc.cls, UH-logo.png