Supercooled Phase Transitions in the Very Early Universe
Dec, 19814 pages
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- Phys.Lett.B 110 (1982) 35-38,
- Adv.Ser.Astrophys.Cosmol. 3 (1987) 154-157
- Published: 1982
Report number:
- Print-82-0181 (CAMBRIDGE)
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The universe might have had a prolonged exponentially expanding phase caused by its being stuck in a metastable state of the grand unified phase transition. The only way that it could exit from this exponential expansion without introducing too much inhomogeneity or spatial curvature would be through a homogeneous “bubble” solution in which quantum tunnelling occured everywhere at the same time. This would produce more baryons than the conventional scenarios.- grand unified theory: critical phenomena
- astrophysics
- potential: Higgs
- tunneling
- thermodynamics
- numerical calculations
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