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Title: Preheating in bubble collisions

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. College of Physical Sciences, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China)

In a landscape with metastable minima, the bubbles will inevitably nucleate. We show that when the bubbles collide, due to the dramatic oscillation of the field at the collision region, the energy deposited in the bubble walls can be efficiently released by the explosive production of the particles. In this sense, the collision of bubbles is actually highly inelastic. The cosmological implications of this result are discussed.

OSTI ID:
21432923
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.043507; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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