Particle productions during collisions of highly boosted bubble walls
Abstract
We investigate the production of particles much heavier than the characteristic scale of a cosmological first-order phase transition through collisions of highly boosted bubble walls. Using the scalar order-parameter field, we derive the ultraviolet behavior of its Fourier-space profile for both elastic and inelastic collisions. In the regime , we find the universal result implying that the spectral density scales as . Thus, heavy-particle production is localized near the instant of collision and, at leading order, depends on the scalar potential only through . We verify this behavior using high-precision numerical solutions of the trapping equation, carefully suppressing spectral leakage from the finite integration domain, and obtain agreement over a broad ultraviolet range. We then derive analytical production rates for general heavy-particle thresholds and for fermion pairs, together with their cosmological number density and yield. Finally, we extend the analysis to dimensions and incorporate the finite bubble radius, finding an order-one suppression relative to the parallel-wall approximation. Our results revise the ultraviolet scaling used in previous treatments and have direct implications for superheavy dark-matter production and baryogenesis from bubble collisions.
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@article{arxiv.2607.16398,
title = {Particle productions during collisions of highly boosted bubble walls},
author = {Haipeng An and Hongyi Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16398},
year = {2026}
}
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43 pages, 5 figures, 1 table