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We investigate a new mechanism for the cosmological QCD phase transition: inhomogeneous nucleation. The primordial temperature fluctuations, measured to be $\delta T/T \sim 10^{-5}$, are larger than the tiny temperature interval, in which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ignatius , Dominik J. Schwarz

The QCD phase diagram might exhibit a first order phase transition for large baryochemical potentials. We explore the cosmological implications of such a QCD phase transition in the early universe. We propose that the large baryon-asymmetry…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Simon Schettler , Tillmann Boeckel , Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

We revisit the phase structure and thermodynamics of QCD in the low temperature and high density region, where a strong, first-order phase transition is expected beyond the critical end point. By solving the quark gap equation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Yi Lu , Fei Gao , Yu-xin Liu

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

The dynamical behavior of the column that made up binary granular beads is investigated systematically by tracking the displacement of particles in the collapse process. An experimental setup is first devised to control the quasi-static…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-26 Hongwei Zhu , Yaodong Feng , Danfeng Lu , Yahya Sandali , Bin Li , Gang Sun , Ning Zheng , Qingfan Shi

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

The dynamics of phase transitions plays a crucial r\^ole in the so-called interface between high energy particle physics and cosmology. Many of the interesting results generated during the last fifteen years or so rely on simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo Gleiser

The nucleation of bubbles during a first-order phase transition has recently been explored using holographic duality, which can provide an important complement to standard perturbative methods. These computations typically require finding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Oscar Henriksson , Niko Jokela , Xin Li

We suggest baryon-baryon correlations as an experimentally accessible signature for a first-order phase transition between a baryon-rich phase, like quarkyonic, and a baryon-suppressed hadronic phase in the QCD phase diagram. We examine the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Agnes Mocsy , Paul Sorensen

We calculate gravitational wave power spectra from first order early Universe phase transitions using the Sound Shell Model. The model predicts that the power spectrum depends on the mean bubble separation, the phase transition strength,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Mark Hindmarsh , Mulham Hijazi

We examine theoretical uncertainties in state-of-the-art calculations of the bubble wall velocity during first-order cosmological phase transitions. By utilising the software WallGo for two extensions of the Standard Model, we find several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jorinde van de Vis , Philipp Schicho , Lauri Niemi , Benoit Laurent , Joonas Hirvonen , Oliver Gould

First order phase transitions in the early universe may have left a variety of experimentally accessible imprints. The dynamics of such transitions is governed by the density perturbations caused by the propagation of the bubble wall in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-02 Carlo Branchina , Angela Conaci , Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Andrea Guiggiani , Angel Gil Muyor , Giuliano Panico

We report on a novel phenomenon of particle cosmology, which features specific cosmological phase transitions via quantum tunnelings through multiple vacua. The latter is inspired by the axiverse ideas and enables us to probe the associated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Zihan Zhou , Jun Yan , Andrea Addazi , Yi-Fu Cai , Antonino Marciano , Roman Pasechnik

Employing a recently developed method that is numerically accurate within a model space simulating the real-time dynamics of few-body systems interacting with macroscopic environmental quantum fields, we analyze the full dynamics of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Javier Prior , Inés de Vega , Alex W. Chin , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We introduce an approximation to calculate the gravitational radiation produced by the collision of true-vacuum bubbles that is simple enough to allow the simulation of a phase transition by the collision of hundreds of bubbles. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arthur Kosowsky , Michael S. Turner

The dynamical growth rate of bubbles nucleating in relativistic plasma in thermal first-order phase transitions is analyzed. The framework is a hydrodynamical model which consists of relativistic fluid and an order parameter field. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ignatius

Domain wall networks are two-dimensional topological defects generally predicted in many beyond standard model physics. In this Letter, we propose to solve the domain wall problem with the first-order phase transition. We numerically study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Yang Li , Ligong Bian , Yongtao Jia

We perform numerical simulations of gravitational waves (GWs) induced by hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic turbulent sources that might have been present at cosmological quantum chromodynamic (QCD) phase transitions. For turbulent energies of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 Axel Brandenburg , Emma Clarke , Yutong He , Tina Kahniashvili

Quantum chromodymamics (QCD) approach to the problem of multiplicity distributions in high energy particle collisions is described. The solutions of QCD equations for generating functions of the multiplicity distributions in gluon and quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-17 I. M. Dremin

We study the spectrum of gravitational waves produced by a first order phase transition in a hidden sector that is colder than the visible sector. In this scenario, bubbles of the hidden sector vacuum can be nucleated through either thermal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Malcolm Fairbairn , Edward Hardy , Alastair Wickens
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