Induced Nucleation in Weak First Order Phase Transition
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-09-25 v1
Abstract
We study induced nucleation by considering the accumulation rate of shrinking subcritical bubbles. We derive the probability for a collection of subcritical bubbles to form a critical bubble, and argue that this mechanism could well play a role in electroweak phase transitions if the Higgs is heavy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9410224,
title = {Induced Nucleation in Weak First Order Phase Transition},
author = {K. Enqvist and I. Vilja},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9410224},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages in latex, HU-TFT-94-41 and TURKU-FL-P13