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The dynamics of the true-vacuum bubbles nucleated during a first-order phase transition is affected by the distribution functions of the particle species in the plasma, driven out-of-equilibrium by the travelling domain wall. An accurate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Andrea Guiggiani , Ángel Gil Muyor , Giuliano Panico

The bubble wall velocity is essential for the spectra of phase-transition gravitational waves, electroweak baryogenesis and the dynamical dark matter mechanism. We perform detailed calculations of the bubble wall velocity in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-04 Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang , Xiao Wang

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

The dynamics of the electroweak phase transition in the early universe has profound implications for cosmology and particle physics. We systematically study the steady-state dynamics of bubble walls in scenarios where the transition is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 Carlo Branchina , Angela Conaci , Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose

We consider the dynamics of bubble growth in the Minimal Standard Model at the electroweak phase transition and determine the shape and the velocity of the phase boundary, or bubble wall. We show that in the semi-classical approximation the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Guy D. Moore , Tomislav Prokopec

The study of the hydrodynamics of bubble growth in first-order phase transitions is very relevant for electroweak baryogenesis, as the baryon asymmetry depends sensitively on the bubble wall velocity, and also for predicting the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jose R. Espinosa , Thomas Konstandin , Jose M. No , Geraldine Servant

We quantise from first principles field theories living on the background of a bubble wall in the planar limit with particular focus on the case of spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry. Using these tools, we compute the average momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Aleksandr Azatov , Giulio Barni , Rudin Petrossian-Byrne , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

We study bubble-wall dynamics in cosmological first-order phase transitions in a two-scalar-field model, where the wall is formed by $\phi$ and an additional real scalar $s$ couples through a portal interaction. We evolve the coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Dongdong Wei , Zong-Kuan Guo

We conducted three-dimensional lattice simulations to study the density perturbation and gravitational waves (GWs) during first-order phase transition (FOPT). We find that for phase transition strength $\alpha > 1$, the forward motion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Jintao Zou , Zhiqing Zhu , Zizhuo Zhao , Ligong Bian

We build on existing calculations of the wall velocity of the expanding bubbles of the broken symmetry phase in a first-order electroweak phase transition within the light stop scenario (LSS) of the MSSM. We carry out the analysis using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Stephan J. Huber , Miguel Sopena

We study the formation of vortices in a U(1) gauge theory following a first-order transition proceeding by bubble nucleation, in particular the effect of a low velocity of expansion of the bubble walls. To do this, we use a two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Julian Borrill , T. W. B. Kibble , Tanmay Vachaspati , Alexander Vilenkin

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the progress of true-vacuum bubbles is expected to be significantly retarded by the interaction between the bubble wall and the hot plasma. We examine the evolution and collision of slow-moving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne-Christine Davis , Matthew Lilley

In standard (symmetry-breaking) first-order phase transitions, the frictional pressure on expanding bubble walls can be dominated by transition radiation -- the emission of a gauge boson with phase-dependent masses as particles present in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Andrew J. Long , Bibhushan Shakya , Julia Anabell Ziegler

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

Strongly first-order phase transitions, i.e., those with a large order parameter, are characterized by a considerable supercooling and high velocities of phase transition fronts. A very strong phase transition may have important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ariel Megevand , Santiago Ramirez

We numerically examine the effect of thermal fluctuations on a first-order phase transition in 2+1 dimensions. By focusing on the expansion of a single bubble we are able to calculate changes in the bubble wall's velocity as well as changes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark Abney

Cosmological phase transitions can give rise to intriguing phenomena, such as baryogenesis or a stochastic gravitational wave background, due to nucleation and percolation of vacuum bubbles in the primordial plasma. A key parameter for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Gláuber C. Dorsch , Thomas Konstandin , Enrico Perboni , Daniel A. Pinto

The kinetic energy of the fluid shell in the cosmological first-order phase transition is crucial for predicting the gravitational wave signals generated by the sound wave mechanism. We propose a model-dependent method to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-06 Xiao Wang , Chi Tian , Fa Peng Huang

Motivated by cosmological first-order phase transitions we examine the nucleation and evolution of vacuum bubbles in non-vacuum environments. Non-standard backgrounds can be relevant in the context of rapid tunneling processes on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-15 Aleksandar Rakic , Dennis Simon , Julian Adamek , Jens C. Niemeyer

We study slow-down effects for bubbles formed in a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) focusing on deflagrations and hybrids, where the bubble wall is preceded by a shockwave of heated plasma. Slow-down has been observed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Nabeen Bhusal , Simone Blasi , Thomas Konstandin , Enrico Perboni , Jorinde van de Vis