Towards an all-orders calculation of the electroweak bubble wall velocity

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/009zbMATH Open1484.83128arXiv2007.10343OpenAlexW3045007903MaRDI QIDQ5025977FDOQ5025977

Authors: Jonathan Kozaczuk, Andrew J. Long, Jessica Turner, Yikun Wang, S. Höche 

Publication date: 7 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze Higgs condensate bubble expansion during a first-order electroweak phase transition in the early Universe. The interaction of particles with the bubble wall can be accompanied by the emission of multiple soft gauge bosons. When computed at fixed order in perturbation theory, this process exhibits large logarithmic enhancements which must be resummed to all orders when the wall velocity is large. We perform this resummation both analytically and numerically at leading logarithmic accuracy. The numerical simulation is achieved by means of a particle shower in the broken phase of the electroweak theory. The two approaches agree to the 10% level. For fast-moving walls, we find the scaling of the thermal pressure exerted against the wall to be $Psimgamm{a}^2{T}^4$, independent of the particle masses, implying a significantly slower terminal velocity than previously suggested.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10343

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zbMATH Keywords

physics of the early universecosmological phase transitionsgravitational waves/theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

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