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Particle productions during collisions of highly boosted bubble walls

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-07-17 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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 χω2k2Mh2\chi\equiv\omega^2-\mathbf{k}^2\gg M_h^2, we find the universal result ϕ~(χ)=2V(2vϕ)χ2+O(χ3),\tilde{\phi}(\chi) = -2V^\prime(2v_\phi)\chi^{-2}+O(\chi^{-3}), implying that the spectral density scales as F(χ)[V(2vϕ)]2χ4F(\chi)\propto [V^\prime(2v_\phi)]^2\chi^{-4}. Thus, heavy-particle production is localized near the instant of collision and, at leading order, depends on the scalar potential only through V(2vϕ)V^\prime(2v_\phi). 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 (3+1)(3+1) 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