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Cosmological first-order phase transitions
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Effective Field Theory for Cosmological Phase Transitions
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Cosmological first-order phase transitions
- 3 Gravitational waves from phase transitions: the pipeline
- 4 Phase transition parameters
- 5 Standard approach to computing parameters
- 6 Theoretical uncertainties
- 7 What has gone wrong?
- 8 Hierarchies in phase transitions
- 9 High temperature effective field theory
- 10 Problem: renormalisation scale dependence
- 11 EFT solution: renormalisation scale independence
- 12 Problem: gauge dependence.
- 13 EFT solution: gauge independence
- 14 Problem: what is the thermal nucleation rate?
- 15 EFT solution: match to classical nucleation theory
- 16 Conclusions
