New calculation of collision integrals for cosmological phase transitions
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| author | Branchina, Carlo Conaci, Angela De Curtis, Stefania Rose, Luigi Delle Guiggiani, Andrea Muyor, Angel Gil Panico, Giuliano |
| author_facet | Branchina, Carlo Conaci, Angela De Curtis, Stefania Rose, Luigi Delle Guiggiani, Andrea Muyor, Angel Gil Panico, Giuliano |
| contents | First order phase transitions in the early universe may have left a variety of experimentally accessible imprints. The dynamics of such transitions is governed by the density perturbations caused by the propagation of the bubble wall in the false vacuum plasma, conveniently described by a Boltzmann equation. The determination of the bubble wall expansion velocity is crucial to determine the experimental signatures of the transition. We report on the first full (numerical) solution to the Boltzmann equation. Differently from traditional ones, our approach does not rely on any ansatz. The results significantly differ from the ones obtained within the fluid approximation and large differences for the friction acting on the bubble wall are found. The wall velocity is calculated in a singlet extension of the Standard Model, including out-of-equilibrium contributions from both the top quark and the electroweak gauge bosons. |
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| spellingShingle | New calculation of collision integrals for cosmological phase transitions Branchina, Carlo Conaci, Angela De Curtis, Stefania Rose, Luigi Delle Guiggiani, Andrea Muyor, Angel Gil Panico, Giuliano High Energy Physics - Phenomenology First order phase transitions in the early universe may have left a variety of experimentally accessible imprints. The dynamics of such transitions is governed by the density perturbations caused by the propagation of the bubble wall in the false vacuum plasma, conveniently described by a Boltzmann equation. The determination of the bubble wall expansion velocity is crucial to determine the experimental signatures of the transition. We report on the first full (numerical) solution to the Boltzmann equation. Differently from traditional ones, our approach does not rely on any ansatz. The results significantly differ from the ones obtained within the fluid approximation and large differences for the friction acting on the bubble wall are found. The wall velocity is calculated in a singlet extension of the Standard Model, including out-of-equilibrium contributions from both the top quark and the electroweak gauge bosons. |
| title | New calculation of collision integrals for cosmological phase transitions |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00766 |