Particle production and symmetry restoration in collisions of vacuum bubbles
- NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
In first-order inflation a phase transition is completed by the collisions of expanding true-vacuum bubbles. If bubble collisions produce large numbers of soft scalar particles carrying quantum numbers associated with a spontaneously broken symmetry, then symmetry restoration may occur in a {open_quotes}preheating{close_quotes} phase in a manner similar to symmetry restoration in the preheating phase of slow-roll inflation. Since bubble collisions lead to inhomogeneities, there is the possibility of inhomogeneous symmetry restoration where restoration occurs only in the regions of wall collisions. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 515987
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 55; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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