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PhaseTracer: tracing cosmological phases and calculating transition properties
- Source :
- European Physical Journal, European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol 80, Iss 6, Pp 1-21 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2020.
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Abstract
- We present a C++ software package called PhaseTracer for mapping out cosmological phases, and potential transitions between them, for Standard Model extensions with any number of scalar fields. PhaseTracer traces the minima of effective potential as the temperature changes, and then calculates the critical temperatures, at which the minima are degenerate. PhaseTracer is constructed with modularity, flexibility and practicality in mind. It is fast and stable, and can receive potentials provided by other packages such as FlexibleSUSY. PhaseTracer can be useful analysing cosmological phase transitions which played an important role in the very early evolution of the Universe. If they were first order they could generate detectable gravitational waves and/or trigger electroweak baryogenesis to generate the observed matter anti-matter asymmetry of the Universe. The code can be obtained from https://github.com/PhaseTracer/PhaseTracer.<br />Comment: 32 pages, 5 figures, matches published version
- Subjects :
- Physics
Phase transition
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Gravitational wave
Physics beyond the Standard Model
Electroweak interaction
Scalar (mathematics)
FOS: Physical sciences
lcsh:Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
Maxima and minima
Baryogenesis
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Theoretical physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
lcsh:QB460-466
0103 physical sciences
Higgs boson
lcsh:QC770-798
lcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
010306 general physics
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Physical Journal, European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol 80, Iss 6, Pp 1-21 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....43bb210da3caf92179b861420dbdd7e9
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2003.02859