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We analyze Higgs condensate bubble expansion during a first-order electroweak phase transition in the early Universe. The interaction of particles with the bubble wall can be accompanied by the emission of multiple soft gauge bosons. When…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Stefan Hoeche , Jonathan Kozaczuk , Andrew J. Long , Jessica Turner , Yikun Wang

We investigate the stochastic gravitational waves background arising from the first-order QCD chiral phase transition, considering three distinct sources: bubble collisions, sound waves, and fluid turbulence. Within the framework of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Xu Han , Guoyun Shao

The bubble wall velocity is essential for the phase transition dynamics in the early universe and its cosmological implications, such as the energy budget of phase transition gravitational wave and electroweak baryogenesis. One key factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-26 Xiao Wang , Fa Peng Huang , Xinmin Zhang

We study statistical relationships between bubble walls in cosmological first-order phase transitions. We consider the conditional and joint probabilities for different points on the walls to remain uncollided at given times. We use these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Ariel Megevand , Federico Agustin Membiela

We study the velocity of bubble walls in the electroweak phase transition. For several extensions of the Standard Model, we estimate the friction and calculate the wall velocity, taking into account the hydrodynamics. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

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

We study the dynamics of cosmological phase transitions in the case of small velocities of bubble walls, $v_w<0.1$. We discuss the conditions in which this scenario arises in a physical model, and we compute the development of the phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ariel Megevand , Santiago Ramirez

The cosmological remnants of a first-order phase transition generally depend on the perturbations that the walls of expanding bubbles originate in the plasma. Several of the formation mechanisms occur when bubbles collide and lose their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

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

One of the key observables in a gravitational wave power spectrum from a first order phase transition in the early Universe is the mean bubble spacing, which depends on the rate of nucleation of bubbles of the stable phase, as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Mudhahir Al Ajmi , Mark Hindmarsh

Using the holographic correspondence as a tool, we determine the steady-state velocity of expanding vacuum bubbles nucleated within chiral finite temperature first-order phase transitions occurring in strongly-coupled large $N$ QCD-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-06 Francesco Bigazzi , Alessio Caddeo , Tommaso Canneti , Aldo L. Cotrone

First order phase transitions could play a major role in the early universe, providing important phenomenological consequences, such as the production of gravitational waves and the generation of baryon asymmetry. An important aspect that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose , Andrea Guiggiani , Ángel Gil Muyor , Giuliano Panico

After a review of CMBR correlations and recent observations, a study of possible CMBR observations of the QCD early universe phase transition is discussed. A model for the QCD bubble walls gives the surface tension found in lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Leonard S. Kisslinger

We investigate rarely explored details of supercooled cosmological first-order phase transitions at the electroweak scale, which may lead to strong gravitational wave signals or explain the cosmic baryon asymmetry. The nucleation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-26 Peter Athron , Csaba Balázs , Lachlan Morris

By means of a relativistic microscopic approach we calculate the expansion velocity of bubbles generated during a first-order electroweak phase transition. In particular, we use the gradient expansion of the Kadanoff-Baym equations to set…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Thomas Konstandin , Germano Nardini , Ingo Rues

Terminal velocity reached by bubble walls in first order phase transitions is an important parameter determining both primordial gravitational-wave spectrum and production of baryon asymmetry in models of electroweak baryogenesis. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 Tomasz Krajewski , Marek Lewicki , Mateusz Zych

Determining the bubble wall velocity in first-order phase transitions is a challenging task, requiring the solution of (coupled) equations of motion for the scalar field and Boltzmann equations for the particles in the plasma. The collision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-28 Wen-Yuan Ai , Benoit Laurent , Jorinde van de Vis

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

The dynamics of bubbles nucleated during a first-order phase transition is controlled by the non-equilibrium fluctuations generated by the traveling domain wall. An accurate modelling of the out-of-equilibrium properties of the plasma is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Andrea Guiggiani

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