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Do Stops Slow Down Electroweak Bubble Walls?

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arxiv hep-ph/0002050 v3 pith:KDYDJUHW submitted 2000-02-04 hep-ph

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keywords bubbleelectroweakfrictionplasmastopsvelocitywallwalls
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We compute the wall velocity in the MSSM. We therefore generalize the SM equations of motion for bubble walls moving through a hot plasma at the electroweak phase transition and calculate the friction terms which describe the viscosity of the plasma. We give the general expressions and apply them to a simple model where stops, tops and W bosons contribute to the friction. In a wide range of parameters including those which fulfil the requirements of baryogenesis we find a wall velocity of order v = 0.05-0.1 much below the SM value.

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