Phase transitions in the early universe [PDF]
SciPost Physics Lecture Notes, 2021 These lecture notes are based on a course given by Mark Hindmarsh at the 24th Saalburg Summer School 2018 and written up by Marvin L\"uben, Johannes Lumma and Martin Pauly.
Mark Hindmarsh, Marvin Lüben, Johannes Lumma, Martin Pauly
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Phase Transitions in the Early Universe [PDF]
, 2011 24 pages, 1 ...
W-Y. P. Hwang, Sang Pyo Kim
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Quark-hadron phase transitions in the viscous early universe [PDF]
Physical Review D, 2012 Based on hot big bang theory, the cosmological matter is conjectured to undergo QCD phase transition(s) to hadrons, when the universe was about $1-10 $s old. In the present work, we study the quark-hadron phase transition, by taking into account the effect of the bulk viscosity.
Abdel Nasser Tawfik, Tiberiu Harko
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Phase Transitions in the Early Universe and Defect Formation [PDF]
, 2003 In the first one of these two lectures, I give an introductory review of phase transitions in finite temperature field theories. I highlight the differences between theories with global and local symmetries, and the similarities between cosmological phase transitions and phase transitions in superconductors.
Arttu Rajantie
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A Little Inflation in the Early Universe at the QCD Phase Transition [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2010 We explore a scenario that allows for a strong first order phase-transition of QCD at non-negligible baryon number in the early universe and its possible cosmological observable consequences. The main assumption is a quasi-stable QCD-vacuum state that leads to a short period of inflation, consequently diluting the net baryon to photon ratio to it's ...
Tillmann Boeckel +1 more
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A tale of two timescales: Mixing, mass generation, and phase transitions in the early universe [PDF]
, 2016 Light scalar fields such as axions and string moduli can play an important role in early-universe cosmology. However, many factors can significantly impact their late-time cosmological abundances.
Keith R. Dienes +2 more
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Phase Transitions and Topological Defects in the Early Universe [PDF]
Australian Journal of Physics, 1997 Our present theories of particle physics and cosmology, taken together, suggest that very early in its history, the universe underwent a series of phase transitions, at which topological defects, similar to those formed in some condensed matter transitions, may have been created.
T. W. B. Kibble
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Reconstructing early universe evolution with gravitational waves from supercooled phase transitions [PDF]
Journal of High Energy PhysicsWe study gravitational waves from supercooled cosmological first-order phase transitions. If such a transition is followed by inefficient reheating, the evolution history of the universe is modified by a period of early matter domination.
Adam Gonstal +2 more
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Kaluza-Klein towers in the early universe: Phase transitions, relic abundances, and applications to axion cosmology [PDF]
, 2017 We study the early-universe cosmology of a Kaluza-Klein (KK) tower of scalar fields in the presence of a mass-generating phase transition, focusing on the time-development of the total tower energy density (or relic abundance) as well as its distribution
Keith R. Dienes +2 more
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Phase Transitions in the Early Universe (Is there a Strongly First Order Electroweak Phase Transition?) [PDF]
, 1998 24 pages, 11 figures, talk presented at the conference "Early Universe and Dark Matter", Heidelberg, July '98; two references added, fig.
Michael G. Schmidt
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