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The cosmological first-order phase transition (FOPT) can be of strong dynamics but with its bubble wall velocity difficult to be determined due to lack of detailed collision terms. Recent holographic numerical simulations of strongly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-30 Li Li , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

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

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

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 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

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

In first-order cosmological phase transitions, the asymptotic velocity of expanding bubbles is of crucial relevance for predicting observables like the spectrum of stochastic gravitational waves, or for establishing the viability of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-22 Shyam Balaji , Michael Spannowsky , Carlos Tamarit

In cosmological first-order phase transitions, the microscopic interaction of the phase transition fronts with non-equilibrium plasma particles manifests itself macroscopically as friction forces. In general, it is a nontrivial problem to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ariel Megevand

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 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

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

The bubble wall velocity in the first order phase transition plays an important role in determining both the amplitude and the pivot frequency of stochastic gravitational wave background. In the framework of the minimal left-right symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Dian-Wei Wang , Qi-Shu Yan , Mei Huang

We perform real-time hydrodynamical simulations of the growth of bubbles formed during cosmological first-order phase transitions under the assumption of local thermal equilibrium. We confirm that pure hydrodynamic backreaction can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Tomasz Krajewski , Marek Lewicki , Mateusz Zych

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 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

The bubble expansion velocity is an important parameter in the prediction of gravitational waves from first order phase transitions. This parameter is difficult to compute, especially in phase transitions in strongly coupled theories. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-04 Mikel Sanchez-Garitaonandia , Jorinde van de Vis

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

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

Extensions of the Standard Model are being considered as viable settings for a first-order electroweak phase transition which satisfy Sakharov's three conditions for the generation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. These extensions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-06 Stephan J. Huber , Miguel Sopena