Big Bang Nucleosynthesis as a Probe of First-Order Phase Transitions

arXiv:2609.28348 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Reheating — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Domain Walls — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Standard Model — 2× in this paper
• Adiabatic Evolution — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Process — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters
• Cosmological Constraints on First-Order Phase Transitions
• Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Limits from BBN and the CMB Independently and Combined
• The 2024 BBN baryon abundance update
• The Bearable Inhomogeneity of the Baryon Asymmetry
• Constraining Density Fluctuations with Big Bang Nucleosynthesis in the Era of Precision Cosmology
• One percent determination of the primordial deuterium abundance
• Constraining first-order phase transitions with curvature perturbations
• Primordial black hole production during first-order phase transitions
• Primordial black holes as a probe of strongly first-order electroweak phase transition
• PBH formation from overdensities in delayed vacuum transitions
• Probing first-order electroweak phase transition via primordial black holes in the effective field theory
• Primordial black holes from strong first-order phase transitions
• Primordial Black Holes from Supercooled Phase Transitions
• First-order Phase Transition interpretation of PTA signal produces solar-mass Black Holes
• Black holes and gravitational waves from slow phase transitions
• Primordial black holes from slow phase transitions: a model-building perspective
• Primordial black holes and curvature perturbations from false vacuum islands
• Exploring loop-induced first-order electroweak phase transition in the Higgs effective field theory
• Bounds from D/H on baryogenesis models

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