Nucleation and bubble growth in a first order cosmological electroweak phase transition

Enqvist, K.; Ignatius, J.; Kajantie, K.; Rummukainen, K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3415

Nucleation and bubble growth in a first order cosmological electroweak phase transition

Aug, 1991

29 pages

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Phys.Rev.D 45 (1992) 3415-3428

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.45.3415

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HU-TFT-91-35

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We study the kinetics of first-order cosmological phase transitions assuming a four-parameter form for the Higgs potential driving the transition. This leads to a phenomenological equation of state for electroweak matter with a stable high-T phase for T>Tc and a low-T phase for T

astrophysics
electroweak interaction: symmetry breaking
symmetry breaking: electroweak interaction
critical phenomena
temperature
thermodynamics
effective potential: Higgs
baryon number: violation
baryon: asymmetry
quark: matter

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