22–26 Apr 2024
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Europe/Zurich timezone

EFT of supercooled phase transitions

22 Apr 2024, 15:12
3m
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Saupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany
Lightning Talk + Poster Afternoon Session

Speaker

Mr Maciej Kierkla (University of Warsaw)

Description

We present an analysis of the first-order supercooled phase transition associated with symmetry breaking in the early Universe in a classically scale-invariant model. We analyze the role of higher order thermal corrections for these transitions, and to what extent they can be computed using dimensionally reduced effective field theory (3D EFT). This framework requires high temperature (HT) expansion to be valid, which seems challenging due to the presence of supercooling. We show how to reliably use the HT expansion in dimensionally reduced theory for the calculation of bubble nucleation rate.
We compare the obtained results to the results of the most common scheme based on the so-called daisy resummation.
We further compute all of phase transition characteristics, discuss various scenarios of completing the transition and predict resulting gravitational-wave spectra and their observational prospects in future experiments such as LISA.

Authors

Dr Bogumiła Świeżewska (University of Warsaw) Dr Jorinde van de Vis (Utrecht University, Leiden University) Mr Maciej Kierkla (University of Warsaw) Dr Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen (Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute & School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MOE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

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