Conveners
Cosmology
- Mikael Chala (Universidad de Granada)
The potential observation of a gravitational wave background compatible with a first-order phase transition (FOPT) would be a striking signature of BSM physics. In order to be able to reconstruct the underlying fundamental model, however, it is crucial to increase the precision of theoretical predictions from the thermal QFT side.
The usual approach to the computation of FOPT parameters is...
We investigate the effect of higher-dimensional marginal operators on the thermodynamics of cosmological phase transitions. Focusing on the Abelian Higgs model, we systematically match these operators, which arise at higher orders in the underlying high-temperature expansion of thermal effective field theory, and use field redefinitions to construct a complete, minimal, and gauge-invariant...