15–17 May 2023 On-Site
Campus Bahrenfeld
Europe/Berlin timezone

A sonic boom in bubble wall friction?

16 May 2023, 09:00
1h 15m
Building 2a, Seminar room 2 (Campus Bahrenfeld)

Building 2a, Seminar room 2

Campus Bahrenfeld

Notkestr. 85 D-22607 Hamburg, Germany

Speaker

Dr Thomas Konstandin (DESY (Cosmology))

Description

In bubble wall friction calculations, a singularity is found in the fluctuations as the wall approaches the speed of sound. We argue that a discontinuity across the speed of sound is expected on general grounds, which manifests itself as the singularity in the solution of the linearized system.

Primary author

Dr Thomas Konstandin (DESY (Cosmology))

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