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We investigate baryogenesis at a first order electroweak phase transition in the presence of a CP violating condensate on the bubble walls, in the regime in which the bubble walls are `thick', in the sense that fermions interact with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-15 Michael Joyce , Tomislav Prokopec , Neil Turok

We discuss the critical bubbles of the electroweak phase transition using an effective high-temperature 3-dimensional action for the Higgs field $\varphi$. The separate integration of gauge and Goldstone boson degrees of freedom is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Kripfganz , A. Laser , M. G. Schmidt

We consider non-perturbative solutions of the Weinberg-Salam model at finite temperature. We employ an effective temperature-dependent potential yielding a first order phase transition. In the region of the phase transition, there exist two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Yves Brihaye , Jutta Kunz

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of the nucleating scalar field during the first-order phase transitions by incorporating one-loop corrections of classical fluctuations. We assume that a high-temperature expansion is valid\te…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-07 Andrii Dashko , Andreas Ekstedt

Recently the thermal friction on an expanding bubble from the cosmic first-order phase transition has been calculated to all orders of the interactions between the bubble wall and thermal plasma, leading to a $\gamma^2$-scaling instead of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

The subsonic expansion of bubbles in a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition is a convenient scenario for electroweak baryogenesis. For most extensions of the Standard Model, stationary subsonic solutions (i.e., deflagrations)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Ariel Megevand , Federico Agustin Membiela , Alejandro D. Sanchez

We investigate the role played by subcritical bubbles at the onset of the electroweak phase transition. Treating the configuration modelling the thermal fluctuations around the homogeneous zero configuration of the Higgs field as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Illuminati , A. Riotto

The influence and validity of wall boundary conditions for non-equilibrium fluid flows described by the Boltzmann equation remains an open problem. The substantial computational cost of directly solving the Boltzmann equation has limited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-02 Tarik Dzanic , Freddie D. Witherden , Luigi Martinelli

The cosmological first-order phase transition (FOPT) can be of strong dynamics but with its bubble wall velocity difficult to be determined due to lack of detailed collision terms. Recent holographic numerical simulations of strongly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-30 Li Li , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

This is the first in a series of papers where we study the dynamics of a bubble wall beyond usual approximations, such as the assumptions of spherical bubbles and infinitely thin walls. In this paper, we consider a vacuum phase transition.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-28 Ariel Mégevand , Federico Agustín Membiela

The fluctuation determinant which determines the preexponential factor of the transition rate for minimal bubbles is computed for the electroweak theory with $\sin \Theta_W = 0$. As the basic action we use the three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 J. Baacke

The standard picture of electroweak baryogenesis requires slowly expanding bubbles. This can be difficult to achieve if the vacuum expectation value of a gauge singlet scalar field changes appreciably during the electroweak phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-13 Jonathan Kozaczuk

We derivate the Langevin and the Fokker-Planck equations for the radius of $O(3)$-symmetric subcritical bubbles as a phenomenological model to treat thermal fluctuation. The effect of thermal noise on subcritical bubbles is examined. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tetsuya Shiromizu , Masahiro Morikawa , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

The first order phase transition proceeds via nucleation and growth of true vacuum bubbles. When charged particles collide with the bubble they could radiate electromagnetic wave. We show that, due to an energy loss of the particles by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jae-weon Lee , Kyungsub Kim , Chul H. Lee , Ji-ho Jang

We study the dynamics of inertial particles in turbulence using datasets obtained from both direct numerical simulations and laboratory experiments of turbulent swirling flows. By analyzing time series of particle velocity increments at…

Metastable `false' vacuum states are an important feature of the Standard Model of particle physics and many theories beyond it. Describing the dynamics of a phase transition out of a false vacuum via the nucleation of bubbles is essential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Dalila Pîrvu , Matthew C. Johnson , Sergey Sibiryakov

Although the QCD phase transition is a crossover in the standard model, nonstandard effects such as a large lepton asymmetry are known to make it first order, with possible applications to gravitational wave production. This process is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-07 James M. Cline , Benoit Laurent

We present a new approach to studies of bubble dynamics in fluids. Relying on particle-based simulations, this method is general and suitable for cases where the commonly used perfect fluid description fails. We study expanding true vacuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

Fluctuations of electric and magnetic fields in the collisionless plasma are found as a solution of the initial value linearized problem. The plasma initial state is on average stationary and homogeneous. When the state is stable, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-01-07 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

In extensions of the Standard Model with SU(2) singlet scalar fields, there can be regions of parameter space for which the electroweak phase transition is first order already at the mean-field level of analysis. We show that in this case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Dietrich Bodeker , Guy D. Moore