Induced Nucleation in Weak First Order Phase Transition

Abstract

We study induced nucleation by considering the accumulation rate of shrinking subcritical bubbles. We derive the probability for a collection of subcritical bubbles to form a critical bubble, and argue that this mechanism could well play a role in electroweak phase transitions if the Higgs is heavy.

11 pages in latex, HU-TFT-94-41 and TURKU-FL-P13

References in corpus (4)

• Progress in Electroweak Baryogenesis
• A Lattice Monte Carlo Study of the Hot Electroweak Phase Transition
• Thermalization of the Higgs Field at the Electroweak Phase Transition
• Kinetics of Sub-Critical Bubbles and the Electroweak Transition

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