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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

Computing the properties of the bubble wall of a cosmological first order phase transition at electroweak scale is of paramount importance for the correct prediction of the baryon asymmetry of the universe and the spectrum of gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Marek Lewicki , Marco Merchand , Mateusz Zych

We quantize subcritical bubbles which are formed in the weakly first order phase transition. We find that the typical size of the thermal fluctuation reduces in the quantum-statistical physics. We estimate the typical size and the amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Tomoko Uesugi , Masahiro Morikawa , Tetsuya Shiromizu

In a vacuum first-order phase transition, gravitational waves are generated from collision of bubbles of the true vacuum. The spectrum from such collisions takes the form of a broken power law. We consider a toy model for such a phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniel Cutting , Elba Granados Escartin , Mark Hindmarsh , David J. Weir

We study the gravitational waves produced by the collision of the bubbles as a probe for the cosmological first order QCD phase transition, considering heavy static quarks. Using AdS/QCD and the correspondence between a first order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 M. Ahmadvand , K. Bitaghsir Fadafan

We study the viscosity corrections to the growth rate of nucleating bubbles in a first order phase transition in scalar field theory. We obtain the non-equilibrium equation of motion of the coordinate that describes small departures from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 S. M. Alamoudi , D. G. Barci , D. Boyanovsky , C. A. A. de Carvalho , E. S. Fraga , S. E. Joras , F. I. Takakura

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

Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

The strongly coupled system like the quark-hadron transition (if it is of first order) is becoming an active play yard for the physics of cosmological first-order phase transitions. However, the traditional field theoretic approach to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-14 Jun-Chen Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Yu-Shi Hao , Shao-Jiang Wang

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

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 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

A model for the acoustic production of gravitational waves at a first order phase transition is presented. The source of gravitational radiation is the sound waves generated by the explosive growth of bubbles of the stable phase. The model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mark Hindmarsh

We estimate the gravitational wave spectra generated in strongly supercooled phase transitions by bubble collisions and fluid motion. We derive analytically in the thin-wall approximation the efficiency factor that determines the share of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Marek Lewicki , Ville Vaskonen

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 how out-of-equilibrium effects modify the steady-state propagation of bubble walls during a cosmological first-order electroweak phase transition. Going beyond the local thermal equilibrium approximation, we numerically solve the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Carlo Branchina , Angela Conaci , Stefania De Curtis , Luigi Delle Rose

For a cosmological first-order electroweak phase transition, requiring no sphaleron washout of baryon number violating processes leads to a lower bound on the strength of the transition. The velocity of the boundary between the phases, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-18 Shehu AbdusSalam , Layla Kalhor , Mohammad Javad Kazemi

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

Assuming that the electroweak and QCD phase transitions are first order, upon supercooling, bubbles of the new phase appear. These bubbles grow to macroscopic sizes compared to the natural scales associated with the Compton wavelengths of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Huet , K. Kajantie , R. G. Leigh , B. -H. Liu , L. McLerran

We study gravitational-wave production from bubble collisions in a cosmic first-order phase transition, focusing on the possibility of model separation by the bubble nucleation rate dependence of the resulting gravitational-wave spectrum.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-20 Ryusuke Jinno , Sangjun Lee , Hyeonseok Seong , Masahiro Takimoto