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arxiv: hep-ph/9209258 · v1 · submitted 1992-09-20 · ✦ hep-ph

Collapsing Sub-Critical Bubbles

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keywords phasetransitionbeenbubblescriticalelectroweakstandardunbroken
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In the standard scenario, the electroweak phase transition is a first order phase transition which completes by the nucleation of critical bubbles. Recently, there has been speculation that the standard picture of the electroweak phase transition is incorrect. Instead, it has been proposed that throughout the phase transition appreciable amounts of both broken and unbroken phases of $SU(2)$ coexist in equilibrium. I argue that this can not be the case. General principles insure that the universe will remain in a homogenous state of unbroken $SU(2)$ until the onset of critical bubble production.

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