Supersonic Deflagrations in Cosmological Phase Transitions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-09-01 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
The classification of the hydrodynamical growth mechanisms for the spherical bubbles of the low-temperature phase in cosmological phase transitions is completed by showing that the bubbles can grow as supersonic deflagrations. Such deflagrations consist of a Jouguet deflagration, followed by a rarefaction wave. Depending on the amount of supercooling, the maximal velocity of supersonic deflagrations varies between the sound and the light velocities. The solutions faster than supersonic deflagrations are weak detonations.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9501216,
title = {Supersonic Deflagrations in Cosmological Phase Transitions},
author = {H. Kurki-Suonio and M. Laine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9501216},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages, RevTeX, 6 figures. Complete paper appended as uuencoded postscript and at http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/tft/tft_preprints.html