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First order phase transitions (FOPTs) constitute an active area of contemporary research as a promising cosmological source of observable gravitational waves. The spacetime dynamics of the background scalar field undergoing the phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Bibhushan Shakya

While first order phase transitions (FOPTs) have been extensively studied as promising cosmological sources of gravitational waves, the phenomenon of particle production from the dynamics of the background field during FOPTs has received…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Henda Mansour , Bibhushan Shakya

We propose a novel primordial black hole (PBH) formation mechanism based on a first-order phase transition (FOPT). If a fermion species gains a huge mass in the true vacuum, the corresponding particles get trapped in the false vacuum as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Kiyoharu Kawana , Ke-Pan Xie

First-order phase transitions (FOPT) are ubiquitous in beyond the Standard Model physics and leave distinctive echoes in the history of early universe. We consider a FOPT serving the well-motivated role of dark matter mass generation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Miha Nemevšek , Yue Zhang

I explore various scenarios for the phase transition within neutron-star matter. I do so by generating large model-agnostic ensemble using Gaussian processes, both with and without explicit inclusion of first-order phase transitions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-05 Oleg Komoltsev

In a cosmological first-order phase transition (FOPT), the true and false vacuum bubble radius distributions are not expected to be monochromatic, as is usually assumed. Consequently, Fermi balls (FBs) and primordial black holes (PBHs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng , Yu-Min Yeh

Understanding whether primordial black holes form during strong first-order phase transition (FOPT) is a crucial open question in cosmology. We address this using a fully covariant formalism to study cosmological perturbations, highlighting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Gabriele Franciolini , Yann Gouttenoire , Ryusuke Jinno

Cosmological first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) serve as comprehensive probes into our early Universe with associated generations of stochastic gravitational waves and superhorizon curvature perturbations or even primordial black holes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-22 Zi-Yan Yuwen , Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang

A first order phase transition usually proceeds by nucleating bubbles of the new phase which then rapidly expand. In confining gauge theories with a gravity dual, the deconfined phase is often described by a black hole. If one starts in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Gary T. Horowitz , Matthew M. Roberts

We discuss the possibility of forming primordial black holes during a first-order phase transition in the early Universe. As is well known, such a phase transition proceeds through the formation of true-vacuum bubbles in a Universe that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Michael J. Baker , Moritz Breitbach , Joachim Kopp , Lukas Mittnacht

Making use of both the stochastic approach to the tunneling phenomenon and the threshold statistics, we offer a simple argument to show that critical bubbles may be correlated in first-order phase transitions and biased compared to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 V. De Luca , G. Franciolini , A. Riotto

False vacuum remnants in first-order phase transitions in the early Universe can form compact objects which may constitute dark matter. Such remnants form because particles develop large mass gaps between the two phases and become trapped…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Kiyoharu Kawana , Philip Lu , Ke-Pan Xie

Cosmological first-order phase transitions (1stOPTs) are said to be strongly supercooled when the nucleation temperature is much smaller than the critical temperature. These are often encountered in theories that admit a nearly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Yann Gouttenoire , Tomer Volansky

A new mechanism of black hole formation in a first order phase transition is proposed. In vacuum bubble collisions the interaction of bubble walls leads to the formation of nontrivial vacuum configuration. The consequent collapse of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Yu. Khlopov , R. V. Konoplich , S. G. Rubin , A. S. Sakharov

A new mechanism of black hole formation in a first order phase transition is proposed. In vacuum bubble collisions the interaction of bubble walls leads to the formation of nontrivial vacuum configuration. The consequent collapse of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 M. Yu. Khlopov , R. V. Konoplich , S. G. Rubin , A. S. Sakharov

Primordial black hole (PBH) formation from first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) combines two prevalent elements of beyond the Standard Model physics with wide-ranging consequences. We elaborate on a recently proposed scenario in which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Kiyoharu Kawana , TaeHun Kim , Philip Lu

In this paper we present a novel mechanism for producing the observed Dark Matter(DM) relic abundance during the First Order Phase Transition (FOPT) in the early universe. We show that the bubble expansion with ultra-relativistic velocities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-15 Aleksandr Azatov , Miguel Vanvlasselaer , Wen Yin

Supercooled first-order phase transition (FOPT) can lead to the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). This scenario imposes stringent requirements on the profile of the effective potential. In this work, we use the singlet extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-18 Dorival Gonçalves , Ajay Kaladharan , Yongcheng Wu

Using a toy model Lagrangian we investigate the formation of vortices in first order phase transitions. The evolution and interactions of vacuum bubbles are also studied using both analytical approximations and a numerical simulation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alejandra Melfo , Leandros Perivolaropoulos

In first-order phase transitions in the early universe, the bubble wall is expected to be significantly slowed-down by its interaction with the surrounding plasma. We examine the behaviour of the phase of the Higgs field after two-bubble…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Matthew Lilley
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