Particle productions during collisions of highly boosted bubble walls
Haipeng An, Hongyi Jiang
hep-ph, astro-ph.CO
Submitted: 2026-07-17
Comments: 43 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We investigate the production of particles much heavier than the characteristic scale of a cosmological first-order phase transition through collisions of highly boosted bubble walls.
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Abstract
We investigate the production of particles much heavier than the characteristic scale of a cosmological first-order phase transition through collisions of highly boosted bubble walls. Using the scalar order-parameter field, we derive the ultraviolet behavior of its Fourier-space profile for both elastic and inelastic collisions. In the regime chi omega 2-k squared M h squared, we find the universal result (chi) = -2V(2v phi) chi-2+O(chi-3), implying that the spectral density scales as F(chi) proportional to [V(2v phi)] 2 chi-4. Thus, heavy-particle production is localized near the instant of collision and, at leading order, depends on the scalar potential only through V(2v phi). We verify this behavior using high-precision numerical solutions of the trapping equation, carefully suppressing spectral leakage from the finite integration domain, and obtain agreement over a broad ultraviolet range. We then derive analytical production rates for general heavy-particle thresholds and for fermion pairs, together with their cosmological number density and yield. Finally, we extend the analysis to (3+1) dimensions and incorporate the finite bubble radius, finding an order-one suppression relative to the parallel-wall approximation. Our results revise the ultraviolet scaling used in previous treatments and have direct implications for superheavy dark-matter production and baryogenesis from bubble collisions.
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