2 papers
hep-lat2025
Testing nucleation calculations for strong phase transitions
Oliver Gould, Anna Kormu, David J. Weir
Accurate calculations of the nucleation rate for first order phase transitions are important for determining their observable consequences in particle physics and cosmology. Pe…
astro-ph.CO2018
Scaling in necklaces of monopoles and semipoles
Mark Hindmarsh, Anna Kormu, Asier Lopez-Eiguren +1
Models of symmetry breaking in the early universe can produce networks of cosmic strings threading 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles. In certain cases there is a larger global symmetry g…