1992
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.45.3415
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Nucleation and bubble growth in a first-order cosmological electroweak phase transition

Abstract: We study the kinetics of first-order cosmological phase transitions assuming a four-parameter form for the Higgs potential driving the transition. This leads to a phenomenological equation of state for electroweak matter with a stable high-T phase for T > T, and a low-T phase for T < T,. The nucleation probability of low-T bubbles, both critical and subcritical, is computed and their growth and coalescence is simulated. We show that they can grow as deflagrations and that detonations are unlikely. Possible fro… Show more

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“…Values of T 0 /T c which are smaller than √ 5/3 ≈ 0.75 are not very natural [2]. However, when the potential is required to be valid only in the vicinity of T c , also smaller values are possible.…”
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“…Values of T 0 /T c which are smaller than √ 5/3 ≈ 0.75 are not very natural [2]. However, when the potential is required to be valid only in the vicinity of T c , also smaller values are possible.…”
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“…1, together with f (λ)/λ 3/2 . It is interesting to note that the latter one, which is relevant in the large relative supercooling (λ = 0) limit [2], is an almost straight line over the full range. Now we will turn to the main issue of this Letter: study of the Helmholtz free energy of a spherical bubble of the low temperature phase nucleating in the high temperature phase, and a discussion of what effects differing definitions of the bubble radius have.…”
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