Seminarium "Teoria cząstek elementarnych i kosmologia"
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2025-10-16 (Czwartek)
Maciej Kierkla (IFT UW)
Finite-temperature bubble-nucleation with shifting scale hierarchies
Focusing on supercooled PTs in models with classical scale symmetry, we investigate the limitations of derivative expansions in constructing a thermal EFT description for bubble nucleation. We show that the derivative expansion for gauge field fluctuations diverges because the gauge field mass varies strongly between the high- and low-temperature phases. By computing the gauge fluctuation determinant, we show that these effects can be captured while accounting for large explicit logarithms at two loops. We show how this construction can improve nucleation rate calculations, providing a more robust framework for describing GW from supercooled PT in models like the SU(2)cSM.
2025-10-09 (Czwartek)
Jorinde van de Vis (CERN)
The bubble wall velocity in cosmological phase transitions
Cosmological first order phase transitions are a promising source of gravitational waves, and a possible explanation of the baryon asymmetry and dark matter abundance. Predicting the phenomenological consequences of such phase transitions requires knowledge of the expansion velocity of the bubbles formed in a phase transition. In this talk, I will summarize the computation of the wall velocity and present WallGo, a software package for the computation of bubble wall velocities. WallGo is the first publicly available code that computes the matrix elements, collision integrals Boltzmann equation and scalar field equation of motion for user-defined models. I will present results obtained with WallGo, and discuss estimates of the theoretical uncertainty of the bubble wall velocity. I will end with an estimate of the wall velocity in theories with strong coupling.