Theoretical uncertainties for cosmological first-order phase transitions

By D. Croon, O. Gould, P. Schicho, T. Tenkanen, G. White. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020

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We critically examine the magnitude of theoretical uncertainties in perturbative calculations of fist-order phase transitions, using the Standard Model effective field theory as our guide. In the usual daisy-resummed approach, we find large uncertainties due to renormalisation scale dependence, which amount to two to three orders-of-magnitude uncertainty in the peak gravitational wave amplitude, relevant to experiments such as LISA. Alternatively, utilising dimensional reduction in a more sophisticated perturbative approach drastically reduces this scale dependence, pushing it to higher orders. Further, this approach resolves other thorny problems with daisy resummation: it is gauge invariant which is explicitly demonstrated for the Standard Model, and avoids an uncontrolled derivative expansion in the bubble nucleation rate.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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• Baryogenesis from the weak scale to the grand unification scale (2020, background): “A comprehensive discussion of the theoretical uncertainties was recently given by (Croon et al., 2020).”