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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

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

As a promising probe for the new physics beyond the standard model of particle physics in the early Universe, the predictions for the stochastic gravitational wave background from a cosmological first-order phase transition heavily rely on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-31 Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

We compute the terminal bubble wall velocity during a cosmological phase transition by modelling non-equilibrium effects in the plasma with the so-called "extended fluid Ansatz". A $\phi^6$ operator is included in the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-06 Glauber C. Dorsch , Daniel A. Pinto

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

We study the steady state motion of bubble walls in cosmological phase transitions. Taking into account the boundary and continuity conditions for the fluid variables, we calculate numerically the wall velocity as a function of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 Ariel Megevand , Alejandro D. Sanchez

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

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 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

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

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

We revisit the computation of bubble wall friction during a cosmological first-order phase transition, using an extended fluid Ansatz to solve the linearized Boltzmann equation. A singularity is found in the fluctuations of background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Glauber C. Dorsch , Stephan J. Huber , Thomas Konstandin

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

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

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

We present a new method to estimate terminal bubble velocities during first-order phase transitions in a plasma in local equilibrium. The method relies on calculating the extrema of a modified potential function for the scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Martin Münzenberg , Carlos Tamarit

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

Accurately determining bubble wall velocities in first-order phase transitions is of great importance for the prediction of gravitational wave signals and the matter-antimatter asymmetry. However, it is a challenging task which typically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Wen-Yuan Ai , Benoit Laurent , Jorinde van de Vis

We analyse the dynamics of the relativistic bubble expansion during the first order phase transition focusing on the ultra relativistic velocities $\gamma\gg 1$. We show that fields much heavier than the scale of the phase transition can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Aleksandr Azatov , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

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