Detonations and deflagrations in cosmological phase transitions

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.05.007MaRDI QIDQ994602zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ariel Mégevand, Alejandro Sánchez

Publication date 13 September 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1753

zbMATH Keywords

nucleation temperaturemotion of bubble walls

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: 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 nucleation temperature, the latent heat, and a friction parameter. We determine regions in the space of these parameters in which detonations and/or deflagrations are allowed. In order to apply the results to a physical case, we calculate these quantities in a specific model, which consists of an extension of the Standard Model with singlet scalar fields. We also obtain analytic approximations for the wall velocity, both in the case of deflagrations and of detonations.

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