3 papers
hep-ph2026
Phase Transitions and Gravitational Wave Production at the End of Thermal Inflation
Hyukjung Kim, Ä°layda Kuzu, Kerem Ãzsoy +3
We investigate the first-order phase transition that terminates thermal inflation and evaluate the associated stochastic gravitational-wave signals. The transition is first charact…
hep-ph2025
Stability of the electroweak vacuum with respect to vacuum tunneling to the Komatsu vacuum in the cMSSM
Hyukjung Kim, Ewan D. Stewart, Heeseung Zoe
We investigate the stability of the electroweak vacuum with respect to vacuum tunneling to the Komatsu vacuum, which exists when , in the cMSSM. Employing the…
astro-ph.CO2025
The curvature perturbation generated by thermal fluctuations during thermal inflation
Jeong-Myeong Bae, Hammam Raihan Mohammad, Ewan D. Stewart +1
During thermal inflation, the temperature determines the number of e-folds of expansion of the universe and so thermal fluctuations are magnified into curvature perturbations. We u…