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- Ligang Xia
For a cosmological first-order phase transition in the early Universe, the associated stochastic gravitational wave background is usually dominated by sound waves from plasma fluid motions, which have been analytically modeled as a random superposition of freely propagating sound shells but with the force by the scalar field that produces the self-similar profile removed. Recently, we proposed...
It is challenging to build a model that can correctly and unifiedly account for the deconfinement phase transition and thermodynamics of the hot $SU(N)$ pure Yang-Mills (PYM) system, for any $N$. In this article, we slightly generalize the massive PYM model to the situation with a quasigluon mass $M_g(T)$ varying with temperature, inspired by the quasigluon model. In such a framework, we can...
In this report, we show our recent two works. In one of the works, we focus on the backreaction force and point out that besides the friction force, the thermal force should also be taken into consideration. Besides the plasma near the wall, the sound shell and the shock front will also contribute to the backreaction force. In the other work, we derive the test formula for the holographic...
The first-order phase transition is one of the promising scenarios as it can explain the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the early universe. In most cases, the transition proceeds through the nucleation of bubbles of the true vacuum. If the nucleation rate is highly suppressed, then vacuum trapping may occur so that the transition ceases. In this work, we will discuss a new approach...
