A sonic boom in bubble wall friction

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/010MaRDI QIDQ5099238zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gláuber Carvalho Dorsch, Stephan J. Huber, Thomas Konstandin

Publication date 31 August 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12548

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological phase transitionscosmology of theories beyond the SMparticle physics-cosmology connectionphysics of the early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Hydro- and aero-acoustics (76Q05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: 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 species as the wall approaches the speed of sound. Using hydrodynamics, we argue that a discontinuity across the speed of sound is expected on general grounds, which manifests itself as the singularity in the solution of the linearized system. We discuss this result in comparison with alternative approaches proposed recently, which find a regular behaviour of the friction for all velocities.

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