On Bubble Growth and Droplet Decay in Cosmological Phase Transitions

Abstract

We study spherically symmetric bubble growth and droplet decay in first order cosmological phase transitions, using a numerical code including both the complete hydrodynamics of the problem and a phenomenological model for the microscopic entropy producing mechanism at the phase transition surface. The small-scale effects of finite wall width and surface tension are thus consistently incorporated. We verify the existence of the different hydrodynamical growth modes proposed recently and investigate the problem of a decaying quark droplet in the QCD phase transition. We find that the decaying droplet leaves behind no rarefaction wave, so that any baryon number inhomogeneity generated previously should survive the decay.

10 pages (revtex), 10 figures as uuencoded postscript

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