https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227000035
Dynamics of bubble walls at the electroweak phase transition
1 INFN Sezione di Firenze and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit‘a della Calabria, I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy
3 IFAE and BIST, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
* e-mail: stefania.decurtis@fi.infn.it
** e-mail: luigi.dellerose@unical.it
*** e-mail: andrea.guiggiani@unifi.it
**** e-mail: agil@ifae.es
† e-mail: giuliano.panico@unifi.it
Published online: 17 November 2022
First order phase transitions in the early universe naturally lead to the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves and to the generation of a matter-antimatter asymmetry. The dynamics of the phase transition is affected by the density perturbations in the hot plasma. We address this topic by providing, for the first time, a full numerical solution to the linearized Boltzmann equation for the top quark species coupled to the Higgs field during a first order phase transition at the electroweak scale. Differently from the traditional approaches, our results do not depend on any ansatz and can fully describe the non-equilibrium distribution functions of the particle species in the plasma.
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