Electroweak Bubble Wall Friction: Analytic Results
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We present an entirely analytic, leading log order determination of the friction an electroweak bubble wall feels during a first order electroweak phase transition. The friction is dominated by W bosons, and gives a wall velocity parametrically ∼ αw, and numerically small, ∼ .01 −− 0.1 depending on the Higgs mass.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000