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The cosmological QCD phase transition is studied in terms of the color confinement at finite temperature using the dual Higgs theory of QCD. The confinement force is largely reduced at high temperature, which leads to the swelling of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hideo Suganuma , Hiroko Ichie , Hideko Monden , Shoichi Sasaki , Manabu Orito , Tadahiro Yamamoto , Toshitaka Kajino

Cosmological phase transitions are thought to have taken place at the early Universe imprinting their properties on the observable Universe. There is strong evidence that, through the dynamics of a scalar field that lead a second order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Orfeu Bertolami

Strongly interacting matter as described by the thermodynamics of QCD undergoes a phase transition, from a low temperature hadronic medium to a high temperature quark-gluon plasma state. In the early universe this transition occurred during…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-09-02 Jurgen Schukraft , Reinhard Stock

Electron mass is known to modify at finite temperatures and densities. Weak nuclear processes have a great impact on electron mass which modifies in a statistical background. We demonstrate how the temperature change in electron mass is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Samina Masood , Jaskeerat Singh

In an earlier paper I proposed a highly symmetric semi-classical initial condition to describe the universe in the period leading up to the electroweak transition and completely determine all cosmology after that. Nothing beyond the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-25 Daniel Friedan

In this thesis the finite temperature transition between confined and deconfined matter is studied at zero and nonzero quark densities. The findings are relevant for the understanding of the evolution of the early Universe and contemporary…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-04-20 Gergely Endrodi

We describe in the context of the particle physics (PP) standard model (SM) `PP-SM' the understanding of the primordial properties and composition of the Universe in the temperature range $130\GeV>T>20\keV$. The Universe evolution is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Johann Rafelski , Jeremiah Birrell , Christopher Grayson , Andrew Steinmetz , Cheng Tao Yang

We discuss the evolution of the Universe from what might be called its quantum origin. We apply the uncertainty principle to the origin of the Universe with characteristic time scale equal to the Planck time to obtain its initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Unnikrishnan , G. T. Gillies , R. C. Ritter

We consider first-order phase transitions of the Universe in the radiation-dominated era. We argue that in general the velocity of interfaces is non-relativistic due to the interaction with the plasma and the release of latent heat. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Ariel Megevand

We demonstrate that the early universe behaved as a relativistic QED (Quantum Electrodynamics) plasma around the nucleosynthesis time while the temperature of the universe was below the neutrino decoupling temperature in the early universe.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-02 Samina S Masood

In this work, the quark-hadron phase transition in a chameleon Brans-Dicke model of brane world cosmology within an effective model of QCD is investigated. Whereas, in the chameleon Brans-Dicke model of brane world cosmology, the Friedmann…

General Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Kh. Saaidi , A. Mohammadi , T. Golanbari , H. Sheikhahmadi , B. Ratra

A standard picture in cosmology has been emerging over the past decade in which a phase transition, associated with chiral symmetry breaking after the electroweak transition, has occurred at approximately $10^{-6}$ seconds after the Big…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-04 K. Atazadeh , A. M. Ghezelbash , H. R. Sepangi

We investigate the evolution of the electroweak phase transition, using a one-Higgs effective potential that can be regarded as an approximation for the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The phase transition occurs in a small interval…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ariel Megevand

In this work, a brane world model with a perfect fluid on brane and a scalar field on bulk has been used to study quark-hadron phase transition. The bulk scalar field has an interaction with brane matter. This interaction comes into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-15 T. Golanbari , A. Mohammadi , Kh. Saaidi

This paper explores various aspects and implications of the initial configuration of the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field at the beginning of our Universe. It is well known that the SM Higgs field features a deeper, more stable minimum at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Bibhushan Shakya

The thermodynamical properties of a generalized Dicke model are calculated and related with the critical properties of its energy spectrum, namely the quantum phase transitions (QPT) and excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPT). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , Sergio Lerma-Hernández , Jorge G. Hirsch

We discuss the electroweak phase-transition in the early universe, using non-perturbative flow equations for a computation of the free energy. For a scalar mass above $\sim 70$ GeV, high-temperature perturbation theory cannot describe this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Bastian Bergerhoff , Christof Wetterich

Zero-temperature or quantum phase transitions in itinerant electronic systems both with and without quenched disordered are discussed. Phase transitions considered include, the ferromagnetic transition, the antiferromagnetic transition, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

The electrical conductivity has been calculated in the early universe at temperatures below as well as above the electroweak vacuum scale, $T_c\simeq 100$GeV. Debye and dynamical screening of electric and magnetic interactions leads to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Heiselberg

A classical solution of the Standard Model + General Relativity is given by an elliptic function whose periodicity in imaginary time is the origin of cosmological temperature. Nothing beyond the Standard Model is assumed. The solution is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Daniel Friedan